Mughal Garden

ムガル庭園 / 16th–18th century / Style / Garden Styles

The chahar bagh scaled to empire: stepped water channels and white marble pavilions achieving, at Shalimar and the Taj, the full integration of building and garden.

Mughal Garden — Shalamar Gardens (CC BY-SA 4.0) · © Shahzaib Damn Cruze — Shalamar Gardens (CC BY-SA 4.0) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · © Shahzaib Damn Cruze

Mughal Garden — Stepped water channel (CC BY-SA 4.0) · © Shahzaib Damn Cruze — Stepped water channel (CC BY-SA 4.0) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · © Shahzaib Damn Cruze

Mughal Garden — Baburnama, Babur supervising the laying out of a garden 1590s — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain — Baburnama, Babur supervising the laying out of a garden 1590s — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

At a glance

Visual cues

Stepped water channels
White marble against water
Symmetrical avenues
Tomb and garden unified

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Monumental buildings whose forecourt must be composed with them as one
Sites with a fall that lets water be shown terrace by terrace

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Dictionary entry

Type: Align the building's inscription with the garden axis so both read as one
Composition: Run the fourfold axis through the building center and mirror the facade
Material: Set white stone against dark water and change the sound at each drop
Caution: The pool gets widened to hold the reflection until the fourfold axis and the paired avenues can no longer be read and the form comes apart.
Further study: the Shalamar Gardens / the Taj Mahal's fourfold garden / the staging of water

Related entries

Persian Garden (ペルシャ庭園)Same Garden Styles lineage.Compare Mughal Garden and Persian Garden
Mughal Miniature (ムガル細密画)Shared effects: Luxury / Calm.Compare Mughal Garden and Mughal Miniature

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