Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Fine Arts

Chapter

The Deccani Schools of Painting

Question:

Match the person in List- I with Description in List- II

List- I (Person)

List- II (Description)

(A) Yusuf

(I) Scribe dedicated to Ibrahim Adil

(B) Farrukh Beg  

(II) Painted ‘Poet in a Garden’

(C) Ibrahim II

(III) Painted ‘Sultan Adil Shah II Playing Tambura’

(D) Muhammad Ali

(IV) wrote Nauras Nama

Options:

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

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

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

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

Correct Answer:

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

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 3- (A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)

In the Decani School of paintings (Ahmadnagar) the male costume is also decisively northern. The jama with pointed tails is frequently seen in early Akbari miniatures and probably originated in the area somewhere between Delhi and Ahmedabad. The small pagri is close to the form found in the earliest Akbari miniatures. The original paintings in the Gulistan of 1567 have been attributed by art historians to the Bukhara artists. Another interesting fact is that such painters may also have worked in the Deccan. This supported by a manuscript is now in the collection of Bankipore Library, Patna. It is signed by a scribe, Yusuf, and is dedicated to Ibrahim Adil (1569), presumably Ibrahim Qutb Shah of Golconda, who ruled from 1550–1580. This manuscript contains seven miniatures that are completely in the Bukhara idiom of that date.

Sultan Adil Shah II playing Tambura- Displayed at the National Museum in Prague, Czech Republic, the painting by Farrukh Beg captures Sultan Adil Shah II engaging in the art of Tambura playing in Bijapur, between 1595 and 1600.

The school of Bijapur was patronised by Ali Adil Shah I (1558–1580) and his successor Ibrahim II (1580–1627), both patrons of art and literature. The latter was also an expert in Indian music and author of a book on this subject, Nauras-nama. He was the owner of Nujum al-Ulum manuscript and might have commissioned the Ragamala series in the 1590s. Bijapur had a close connection with Turkey and astronomical illustrations in Nujum al-Ulum may have been derived from Ottoman Turkish manuscripts. The Ragamala are, as we have seen, Indian in their connections, with definite echoes of the Lepakshi style. They exemplify the luxuriant aestheticism of the Adil Shah court in their daring and brilliantly successful colouring and vigour of simplified compositions.

The artwork titled "Poet in a Garden" by Muhammad Ali from Golconda, created between 1605 and 1615, is housed at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, USA.