{"id":1782,"date":"2019-12-12T05:43:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T05:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2019-12-12T05:43:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T05:43:28","slug":"tomb-of-etmauddaula-baby-taj-mahal-agra-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/12\/tomb-of-etmauddaula-baby-taj-mahal-agra-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomb of Etmauddaula (Baby Taj Mahal) – Agra, India"},"content":{"rendered":"

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the \u2018Baby Taj\u2019 as it is thought to have been the model for the Taj Mahal, although it is also referred to as the ‘jewel box’.<\/p>\n

The mausoleum was commissioned by\u00a0Nur Jahan, the wife of\u00a0Jahangir, for her father\u00a0Mirz\u0101 Ghiy\u0101s Beg, originally a Persian Amir in exile.<\/p>\n

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The entire building is covered with delicate artwork with marble lattice screens and fine carvings. This is the first Mughal structure made with marbles by Nur Jahan, mother of Shah Jahan (builder of Taj Mahal).<\/p>\n

This tomb was the first to use pietra dura style decoration with semi-precious stones\u00a0 (cornelian,\u00a0jasper,\u00a0lapis lazuli,\u00a0onyx, and\u00a0topaz)<\/p>\n

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The only asymmetrical element of the entire complex is that the\u00a0cenotaphs (shown above) of her father and mother have been set side-by-side, a formation replicated in the Taj Mahal.<\/p>\n

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The main element of Itimad-Ud-Daulah tomb is the square barahdari that has\u00a0three arched openings on each side which are closed by jalis,\u00a0similar to Persian architecture.<\/p>\n

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On each corner of the mausoleum there are hexagonal towers, about thirteen meters tall.<\/p>\n

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The mausoleum is placed on a large red sandstone platform, which can be accessed via four monumental gateways.<\/p>\n

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The western gateway is a waterfront pavilion and the eastern one is the main entrance. The southern and northern gateway are false gates, made for the sake of maintaining symmetry.\u00a0Every gate is made with red sandstone and has geometric designs and chine khana designs made on white marbles.<\/p>\n

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the \u2018Baby Taj\u2019 as it is thought to have been the model for the Taj Mahal, although it is also referred to as the ‘jewel box’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1794,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/1794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}