Set 2 | Important Indian Paintings MCQs

Correct Answer is B.

• The wall paintings belonging to the Kangra School that adorn Rangmahalof the Chamba palace in Himachal Pradesh are splendid and represent one of the most extensive hill collections.
• The paintings follow the stories of Lord Krishna.

Correct Answer is A.

• Paintings of Bagh caves are materialistic than spiritualistic.
• The paintings from Bagh caves in Madhya Pradesh correspond to the paintings of Ajanta cave no. 1 and 2.
• The paintings are more earthly and human than those at Ajanta.
• These were executed in tempera.

Correct Answer is B.

• The mural in cave no. 4 dedicated to Adinatha Tirthankara depicts jain saints.
• The Chalukyan king, Mangalesha, younger son of Pulakeshin-I, patronized the excavation of Badami caves.
• The modelling is much more sensitive in texture and expression and the outline is soft and elastic.

Correct Answer is D.

• The technique employed in Sittanavasal is knownas fresco-secco, that is, painting is done on a dry wall.
• Paintings of Sittanavasal are intimately connected with Jain themes but enjoy the same norm and technique as that of Ajanta.

Correct Answer is C.

• The Boar hunt from Lepakshi temple is an example of two-dimensional painting which almost becomes characteristic of late medieval painting.
• In Lepakshi, Andhra Pradesh, there are glorious examples of Vijaynagara paintings.
• The Lepakshi temple also has the finest specimens of mural paintings of the Vijayanagara kings.

Correct Answer is A, B & C.

• Nayaka paintings of the 17^th and 18^th centuries are seen in Thiruparankundram.
• Early paintings depict scenes from the life of Vardhamana Mahavira.
• The late phase of Nayaka paintings depicts episodes from Mahabharata and the Ramayana and also scenes from Krishna-leela.
• Nayaka paintings were more or less an extension of Vijayanagara style with minor modifications.

Correct Answer is B.

• Kerala Mural painters evolved a pictorial language and technique of their own while discriminately adopting certain style elements from Nayaka and Vijayanagara schools.
• The painters used vibrant and luminous colours representing humans in three-dimension figures.

Correct Answer is A.

• The earliest examples of miniature painting in India exist in the form of illustrations to the religious texts on Buddhism executed under the Palas of the Eastern India and Jain texts executed in Western India during the 11-12^th century.
• A large number of manuscripts on palm-leaf relating to the Buddhist themes were written.
• The Pala painting is characterised by sinuous lines and subdued tones of colour.
• The Pala art came to a sudden end after the destruction of the Buddhist monasteries at the hands of Muslim invaders in the first half of the 13^th century.

Correct Answer is D.

• Mughal paintings are generally confined to miniatures which emerged from Persian miniature painting with Indian Hindu, Jain, Buddhist influences and developed largely in the court of the Mughal Empire of the 16^th-18^th centuries.
• Earliest example of Mughal painting is the illustrated folktale Tuti (Tales of a Parrot).
• The Mughal style evolved as a result of synthesis of the Indian style of painting and the Safavid school of Persian painting.

Correct Answer is B & C.

• Akbar studied painting in his youth under Abdal Samad, when his father Humayun returned to India, he brought two accomplished Persian artists Abdal Samad and Mir Sayyid Ali with him.
• An illustrated manuscript of the Hamzanama consists of 1400 canvas folios.
• Outstanding painters of the period were Dasvant and Basavan.