Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Fine Arts

Chapter

The Mughal School of Miniature Painting

Question:

Match the painting in List- I with the place where it is housed in List- II

List- I (Painting)

List- II (Place)

(A) Spies attack the city of Kaymar

(I) Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna

(B) The Marriage Procession of Dara Shikoh

(II) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

(C) Krishna Lifts Mount Govardhan

(III) Fogg Museum of Art, Cambridge UK

(D) Bahadur Shah Zafar

(IV) National Museum, New Delhi

Options:

(A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)

(A)-(I), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)

(A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)

(A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)

Correct Answer:

(A)-(I), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 2- (A)-(I), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)

Spies of Hamza attack the City of Kaymar, 1567–1582 is housed in Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna.

The painting "The Marriage Procession of Dara Shikoh", by Haji Madni is in the collection of the National Museum, New Delhi, India.

Krishna Lifts Mount Govardhan from a dispersed Harivamsa Purana is attributed to Miskin (1585–90). It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Harivamsa Purana is one of the many Sanskrit manuscripts, which were translated into Persian by the Mughals. This painting is on a theme from Harivamsa. Badauni, a scholar noble in the court of Akbar, was assigned the job of translating this volume on Lord Krishna into Persian.

The painting titled "Bahadur Shah Zafar," created in 1838, is housed at the Fogg Museum of Art in Cambridge, United Kingdom.