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Creation Year
1967
Image ID
BC.043
Alternate Identifier
B45.334
Subcollection
BC: Around Isfahan and Tabrik Area
Description
The second-storey galleries open outwards, to later inspire buildings such as the Taj Mahal, among others. Robert Byron’s comments are worth mentioning here: “…this gigantic memorial of the Mongol empire bears witness to that Central Asian virility which produced, under the Seljuks, the Mongols, and the Timurids, the happiest inspirations of Persian architecture. Certainly, this is façade architecture: the prototype of the Taj and a hundred other shrines. But it still breathes power and content, while its offspring achieve only scenic refinement. It has the audacity of true invention; the graces are sacrificed to the idea, and the result, imperfect as it may be, represents the triumph of idea over technical limitations. Much great architecture is of this kind. One thinks of Brunelleschi.” (For a general account of the Tomb of Uljaitu, see BC.041)
Image Notes
Photograph created May 1967. Photograph processed September 1967. Formerly catalogued as B45.334. Notes written on the slide or index: Sultaniyeh.
Curator Notes
In the slide's written date, "April" is crossed out and has been replaced by "May". It is unknown when this change was made.
Image Format
35 mm slide
Geographic Reference
Zanjan, Iran
Keywords
Tomb, Mausoleum, Minaret, Stone, Brick, Masonry, Arches, Pointed Arches, Fourteenth Century, Ilkhanid, Dome
Rights Statement
