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Mughals Architecture introduced many new features like arches, domes and Squinches and also evolved some new trends and techniques of decoration.
Islamic art is an art of line and Islamic artisans can produce beautiful
culmination of lines to bring out masterpieces in two-dimensional forms, which
were totally lacking in Pre Islamic art.
Squinches is an architectural mechanism used to make a transition from a square to a polygonal or circular base for a dome. It may be composed of lintels, corbels, or arches.
In architecture, lintel is a
horizontal beam of any material spanning an opening, usually between two walls
or posts.
Corbel is a supportive architectural
bracket or block projecting from a wall, While an Arch is a structure with a
curved, pointed, or squared upper edge to an opening, and supporting the weight
above it. It is usually a masonry construction, used as a doorway, window, or a
portal, although freestanding monumental arches have been built simply for
symbolic purposes. Like the arabesque, stalactite also owes its growth and development to the Squinches technique. This honey comb motif, is most characteristic ornamentation, which has been used universally in all Islamic art.
Squinch in the Kyz-Bibi Mausoleum in Merv, 11-12th centuries The
squinches in this clay brick building take the form of the stepped, arched
design previously widespread throughout Central Asia. This building represents
one of the last examples of pre-Islamic architecture.
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