Observe the image and answer the following question.
This painting is an early work of the Mughal School, made in the time of Akbar. Identify the painting in the image.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Madonna and Child
The painting is Madonna and Child by Basawan, an important early work of the Mughal School.
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): “The Mughal School of Miniature Painting …Madonna, here, is an extraordinary theme, which brings the Byzantine art, the European classical and its Renaissance to the Mughal atelier, where it is translated and transformed into an entirely different visual experience. Virgin Mary is draped in a classical manner. The attachment displayed between the mother and the child was inspired by the humanist interpretation in the European Renaissance art. The physiology of the child, certain details like the fan and jewellery completely integrated the work to an Indian milieu.”
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