Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: Amer Fort
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Collection:
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Archivision Base to Module 13
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Preferred Title:
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Amer Fort
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Alternate Title:
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Amer Palace
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Image View:
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Interior, Sheesh Mahal (mirror palace), completed 1727; walls incrusted with mirrors, stuccowork and marble inlay
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Creator:
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unknown (Indian (South Asian) architects)
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Location:
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site: Āmer, Rājasthān, India
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Location Note:
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Amber; 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) from Jaipur
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GPS:
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+26.9859+75.8507
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Date:
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1592-1726 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Indian (South Asian)
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Style Period:
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Rajasthani (culture or style); Seventeenth century
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Work Type 1:
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royal palace
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Work Type 2:
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fortification
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Classification:
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Architecture and City Planning
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Material:
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red and yellow sandstone; marble; mirror inlay
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Technique:
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carving (processes); construction (assembling)
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Subjects:
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decorative arts; military or war; rulers and leaders; Hinduism; Hindu Rajput; Rajput Maharajas; elephants
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Description:
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Amer (Amber) was founded by Mina (Meena) tribesmen in the early 10th century CE and taken by the Kachchhwaha (Kachwaha) Rajputs ca. 1150. Amer is dominated by the palace complex located halfway up a hill crowned by massive fortifications. The palace complex was built along a north-south axis over a period of ca. 100 years. Raja Man Singh (reigned ca. 1590-1614) built the original palace at the southernmost end. Two sets of courtyards and structures, showing rich cross-fertilization between the Mughal and Rajput styles, were added along the northern axis by Mirza Raja Jai Singh (reigned 1623-1667). In 1727 Jai Singh II founded his new capital at Jaipur, and Amer was abandoned from 1728. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Thirteen
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Identifier:
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1A2-IN-JAIP-AF-C12
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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