Observe the image and answer the following question.
How are the faces shown in this painting?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → In profile, with some three-fourth faces
Option (1) In profile, with some three-fourth faces — Correct. In this Hamza Nama folio, Spies Attack the City of Kaymar, the faces are largely seen in profile, and some three-fourth faces are also shown.
Option (2) In three-fourth view, with some faces in profile — Incorrect. This reverses the two. Profile faces are the main kind here; three-fourth faces are fewer.
Option (3) In frontal view, with some faces in profile — Incorrect. No frontal faces are named for this painting. Most faces are in profile.
Option (4) In frontal view, with some three-fourth faces — Incorrect. The faces are not frontal. Most are in profile, with some three-fourth faces.
Note: This topic was not named in the CUET 2026 syllabus, but it was part of the NCERT chapter. In 2025 and 2026, NTA also asked questions on topics in NCERT that the CUET syllabus did not name. So our mocks have questions from every part of the NCERT chapter, to give you enough practice. Read the whole chapter, not only the sub-topics named in the syllabus.
NCERT (2026-27): “Early Mughal Painting …In Hamza Nama painting, Spies Attack the City of Kaymar (1567–82), the space is sharply cut and divided so as to facilitate visual reading of the narrative. Too much of action is happening and the vibrant colours are of great use here to energise the unfolding of this story, wherein, the spies of Hamza attack the city of Kaymar. A strong outer line defines the foliage and other forms. The faces are largely seen in profile. However, three–fourth faces are also shown.…”
Spies of Hamza attack the City of Kaymar, 1567–1582, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna |
