[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911) › c18.55 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c18.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.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 - [Previous: c18.54](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c18.54) - [Next: c18.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c18.56) - [Up: c18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c18) ## Linked texts (1) - [Gol Gumbaz](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.monument.gol-gumbaz) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c18.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c18.55) · Pramāṇa