Hidden Secrets of Bibi ka Maqbara Aurangabad- Dado Work
Akbar
the great Mughal builder, made use of carved red sandstone dados at Fatehpur
Sikri, which depict forest scenes for the first time in the construction of
buildings.[1]
The upper space of the panel, which would otherwise have been left blank, is
decorated with the Chinese cloud forms. Dados (panels) with Chinese clouds in
their finest forms are ornamented on the tomb of Itmad-ud-Dawlah. The panels
above the dados have layered painting and stucco work chiefly inside the floral
designs.
Ustad
Mansur, the most celebrated painter of the time, painted a series of miniature
paintings during Jahangir's time. The borders of these paintings were later on
ornamented with floral designs and became the main theme in the Taj decoration.
These Mughal miniatures were installed into the dados of the Khwabgah (bedroom) at Fatehpur Sikri built around 1575 AD. Absolutely similar is the dado
decoration of the palace of Mariam Zamani[2] at
Agra. These paintings for dado decoration have borrowed the colours, objects
and landscapes from the miniatures.
The
dado decoration work at the main entrance gate of Maqbara is done in an
artistic manner on the white glazed square tiles affixed in the wall. Rose
plants with beautiful tender leaves and flowers in their natural colours are
painted in the dados in a single horizontal series.[3] The
dado panels have been bound together at their broad borders painted in pleasing
colours and highly conventional floral and runner plant patterns exactly like
the miniature Hashiyas (margins) of the Mughal paintings.[4]
The dados made of white marble placed on the main body of the tomb of Rabiya
Daurani have inlaid borders of black marble strips.
Magnificent
artistic painting work on Side Chamber of Main Entrance Gate
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