The Mughal Painting ‘Madonna and Child’ is made in which of the following medium?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Opaque watercolour on paper
Madonna and Child is an important early work of the Mughal School. It was done in opaque watercolour on paper, at the time when Europeans were in contact with Akbar’s court.
NCERT (2026-27): “Early Mughal Painting …In most of the paintings, produced from the time that the Europeans were in contact with the court of Akbar, we can see an increasing preference for a category of naturalism adapted to compliment the growing diversity in medieval India. Madonna and Child (1580) done in opaque watercolour on paper is an important early work of the Mughal School of Painting in this context.…” |