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Fancy writing
Calligraphy
Building built by a Shah for his deceased wife.
Who was the Taj Mahal built for?
Mumtaz Mahal (wife of the Shah)
The first theme of Islamic art is the reverence for this sacred book.
Founder of Islam.
Muhammad
An investor or benefactor of the arts
a patron
The Church of the Holy Sepulcher was built to memorialize what?
The supposed place where Chris was buried.
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The second theme is the development of art that doesn't include this.
Human form
Built the Taj Mahal for his deceased wife.
Shah Jahan
a tomb or crypt
sepulcher
Byzantine
The garden were changed to resemble what?
The gardens of Britain.
The third theme of Islamic art is that all artistic genres are what?
equal - no one art form is more important than another
The story of Ibrahim and Ismail is the equivalent to what Christian account?
Abraham and Isaac
syncretism
The Temple of the Rock
Islamic tradition forbids this where graves are concerned.
Decoration of graves.
These disguised the Taj Mahal during war times.
Scaffolding and/or false structures
Great patron of the Islamic arts and helped make the Mughal style a distinctive form.
Akbar (the Great)
a place for walking, especially an aisle around the apse or a cloister in a church or monastery.
ambulatory
The Taj Mahal is the most famous structure of what Islamic style?
Mughal
The building to the west of the Taj Mahal was what?
Where is the replica of the Taj Mahal?
Bangladesh
Jewish king whose temple is said to have once stood at the Dome of the Rock.
Solomon