A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c18.55
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c18.55
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c18.55
The name of the architect of this wonderful structure, commonly known as the *Gōl Gumbaz*, or Circular Dome (Fig. 239), does not seem to be recorded, and we do not even know whether he was a foreigner or Indian-born. Foreigners, Asiatic or European, were frequently employed by the Indo-Muhammadan sovereigns, and the Bījāpur style is thought to show the influence of Ottoman architects. An expert critic truly observes that ‘under Mohammedan influence the dome-builders of India attained a mastery over this form unknown [to] and seemingly unappreciated by the builders of the Western world’.¹