National Art Gallery
Red sandstone Indo-Saracenic hall modelled on a Mughal gateway, built as a craft showroom.
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This guide to the National Art Gallery in Egmore, Chennai, follows Namberumal Chetty, the contractor behind many of the red buildings of colonial Madras, and the family ritual that began each of his jobs. It touches a prince's foundation stone in nineteen oh six, an architect borrowing from a Mughal gateway, and the craftsmen whose wares once filled these rooms. Best heard standing in front of the main arch.
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