A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c18.87

c18.87

² Sir Edwin Arnold. The language of some enthusiasts is ‘too floral’, as a Muhammadan author writing in English quaintly puts it. Sir Frederick Treves, quoted with approval by Mr. Chisholm, describes the Tāj as ‘the most loveable monument that has ever been erected’. Mr. Havell has ‘not the least doubt that the designers of the Tāj meant the main building to represent Arjumand Begum herself, and the garden in which it was placed to be the Garden of Paradise, according to the beautiful symbolism often seen in Persian carpets and painting’. He justly censures the Europeanized style of the garden as recently remodelled (*J. Roy. Soc. Arts*, Jan. 1911, pp. 175, 180).