... conquered countries. The themes and motifs of the ornamentation can be divided into three major groups. The first type of ornamentation emphasises the present shapes and forms of the architectural unit. The themes used were vegetal bands for vertical or horizontal elements, marble imitations for the lower parts of long walls, chevrons or other types of borders on floors and domes ... Taj Mahal's political and geographic isolation from the rest of the Islamic world. The Great Mosque at Cordoba can be very simplistically reduced to, as Robert Hillenbrand states an "enclosed square or rect...

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