A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c18.103

c18.103

‘The architect of those structures was a Venetian, named Jerome Veroneo, who went to those parts in the ships from Portugal, and died in the city of Laòr [Lahore] shortly before my arrival. Emperor Corrombo [= Khurram = Shahjahān] gave him large salaries; but it is thought that he profited so badly by them that when he died, they say Father Joseph de Castro, of the [Jesuit] Society, a Lombard by birth, found on him much less than was imagined.’