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The Design of Humayun’s Tomb-Garden Complex in Delhi: Spatial Logic and Landscape Linkages
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
April 7, 2011
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James L. Wescoat Jr., Aga Khan Professor of Architecture, MIT
Humayun’s tomb-garden has great significance in the history of Mughal funerary architecture and landscape design in South Asia. Previous research has focused on its antecedents, architectural elements, visual power, and location near the shrine of the Sufi saint Khwaja Nizamuddin Auliya (d. 1325). This presentation will show how the tomb-garden complex and...
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