Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Fine Arts

Chapter

The Deccani Schools of Painting

Question:

Match the painting in List- I with the period associated with its creation in List- II:

List- I (Painting)

List- II (Period)

(A) The Throne of Prosperity

(I) 1605-1615

(B) Dancing before Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah

(II) 1595-1600

(C) Poet in a Garden

(III) 1590

(D) Sultan Adil Shah II Playing Tambura

(IV) 1570

Options:

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

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

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

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

Correct Answer:

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

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 4- (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)

Nujum al-Ulum: The Throne of Prosperity, Bijapur, 1570, Housed at The Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, Ireland.

The painting 'Dancing before Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah', Golconda, 1590, is currently housed at the British Museum in London, UK.

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.

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