Fortress gardens and the Shwedagon Pagoda, Rangoon, Burma mb-artistname Frank Southgate in the Court of Exchequer

in the Court of Exchequer

c1845-1851

Painted by Titian in 1537 for the Convent of Santa Maria degli Angeli at Murano

Landscape view from above the town of Montemurro

Fortress gardens and the Shwedagon Pagoda, Rangoon, Burma mb-artistname Frank Southgate in the Court of ExchequerFortress gardens and the Shwedagon Pagoda, Rangoon, Burma, c1900s(?). Stereoscopic card. Buddhist tradition holds that the Shwedagon Pagoda was built before the Buddha died in 486 BC, but archaeologists believe its construction dates from between the 6th and 10th century. The height of the stupa was increased on several occasions, reaching its current 98 metres (320 feet) in the 18th century.