Match the Painting in List- I with its painter in List- II: List- I (…

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

List- I (Painting)	List- II (Painter)
(A) Madonna and Child	(I) Basawan
(B) Hamza Nama	(II) Mir Sayyid and Abd us Samad
(C) Babur inspecting the fort of Gwalior	(III) Bhure
(D) Princes of the House of Timur	(IV) Abd Us Samad

"Madonna and Child" by Basawan, created in 1590, is housed at the San Diego Museum of Art in California.

One realises that Mughal paintings were a teamwork by a group of artists, who could be inspired by a number of artistic traditions. The immediate natural surroundings became the resource from which the images of flora and fauna were derived and painted. The painted folios of Hamza Nama are scattered all over the world and housed in various collections. It is recorded to have consisted of 14 volumes with 1400 illustrations and took nearly 15 years to be completed. The suggested date of this magnificent project is 1567–1582 and was completed under the supervision of two Persian masters — Mir Sayyid Ali and Abd us Samad.

The artwork titled "Babur inspecting the fort of Gwalior" by Bhure, featured in the Baburnama and dating back to 1598, is currently displayed at the National Museum in New Delhi.

When we look at an extraordinary Mughal painting from the early period, Princes of the House of Timur (1545–50), probably by Safavid artist, Abd us Samad, in opaque watercolour on cotton, we are surprised by its size and complex structure and display of historical portraits. A prized possession of the imperial family, it has portraits that were painted over the original to register the portraits of successive members of the Mughal dynasty. So, visible in their physical likeness are portraits of Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan painted subsequently over those painted during the reign of Humayun.