A painted room in the form of a gallery commissioned by kings, nobles and merchants. The chitrashala in Bundi Palace, Rajasthan, exemplifies this space, dominated by painted frescoes that depict gods of the Vaishnavite pantheon, viz. Vishnu, Krishna and Rama.
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Latticed screen windows often found in Islamic architecture, typically made of stone, metal, and in rare cases, also wood. Apart…
In architecture, uppermost member of a column or pilaster, wider than the shaft and often distinctively carved or decorated in…
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