A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c18.82

c18.82

Another famous building of Jahāngīr's reign, the tomb of Itimād-ud-daula, near Agra, finished in or about 1628 by that nobleman's daughter, the Empress Nūrjahān, is almost equally exceptional in other ways. The material is wholly white marble, enriched with *pietra dura* patterns in semi-precious stones, and equal to or surpassing in splendour the finest work of the kind executed in Shahjahān’s reign. Although the architectural design does not wholly satisfy expert critics, there can be no question that the structure possesses rare beauty (Fig. 241).