Visual and Style Analysis

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Chapter 23

This activity contains 4 questions.

View in your text the image of the Taj Mahal, and then choose an image from Chapter 8 (Islamic Art). Based on your choice, write about what the Taj Mahal owes to Islamic tradition and what seems to be uniquely Mughal about the mausoleum.

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Look at the image of The Birth of Mahavira in your text (fig. 23-3). Based on what you see, explain what your book means when it says, "…the effect is as if the words themselves had suddenly flared into color and image."

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View the Birth of Mahavira in your text and then figure 7-4, page 237 from chapter 7 (Finding of Moses). Compare and contrast the two images.

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Look at the dramatic image of the outer gopura of the Minakshi-Sundareshvara Temple in your text (fig. 23-4). Based on what you see, justify your book's comparison of the structure to the effect of "modern skyscrapers."

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