besson (catching up)
City Palace of Jaipur, India
This is the other side of the same courtyard, where we see a lot of lotus images on the right hand side entrance and balcony.
The palace was built between 1729 and 1732, initially by the ruler of Amber. The architects achieved a fusion of the Shilpa Shastra of Indian architecture with Rajput, Mughal and European styles of architecture.
This is the back of the place facing the courtyard. One can see that the shades or window screens of each and every balcony is different.
As could be seen from this historical architectures, there must be millions of skilled stonemasons in India at that time and that their skill in making iron/steel tools cutting the stones was rather advanced. There is a research saying that some of the stone smiths --or, at least some of the skills of stone cutting-- came from Egypt after the latter's long experience in pyramids building.
City Palace of Jaipur, India
This is the other side of the same courtyard, where we see a lot of lotus images on the right hand side entrance and balcony.
The palace was built between 1729 and 1732, initially by the ruler of Amber. The architects achieved a fusion of the Shilpa Shastra of Indian architecture with Rajput, Mughal and European styles of architecture.
This is the back of the place facing the courtyard. One can see that the shades or window screens of each and every balcony is different.
As could be seen from this historical architectures, there must be millions of skilled stonemasons in India at that time and that their skill in making iron/steel tools cutting the stones was rather advanced. There is a research saying that some of the stone smiths --or, at least some of the skills of stone cutting-- came from Egypt after the latter's long experience in pyramids building.