What was the size range of the earlier Golconda paintings, dated between 1635 and 1650?
1. Up to four feet high
2. Up to six feet high
3. Up to eight feet high
4. Up to ten feet high
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is option 3: 3 (Up to eight feet high)
The earlier Golconda paintings were as large as eight feet high, indicating their substantial size and visual impact.
Golconda’s art became popular as Dutch merchants carried the portraits of sultans in the late seventeenth century to Europe. These were probably done for the bazaar and had references to royal paintings. The earlier Golconda paintings, dated 1635–1650, at times as large as eight feet high, were made to be used as wall hangings. These paintings are covered with pictorial designs, generally, figures in architectural settings of varied origin.