Music and Miniature Paintings

Q. Most popular text that was depicted in Basholi paintings was _________.

1. Baburnama
2. Akbarnama
3. Rasamanjari
4. Bhagavadgita

Q. Kangra miniature paintings were inspired by ___________.

1. wars and violence
2. foreigners
3. life in villages
4. Vaishnavite traditions

Q. Miniature painting covered many themes. Identify some of them from the options below.

1. Court scenes
2. Scenes of battle or hunting.
3. Aspects of social life.
4. Disease and poverty

Q. The literary sources of medieval India can be classified as religious literarture, performing art literature, and

1. secular literature
2. holy literature
3. temporal literature

Q.

The earliest miniatures were found on

1. Cloths

2. Palm leaves or wood

3. Stones

4. All of the above

Q. In Mewar, Kota, Bundi and Kishangarh, miniature paintings included themes like ___________.

1. war and bloodshed
2. poetry and mythology
3. grandeur of British people
4. foreign landscapes

Q. Whose invasion forced the miniature painters to migrate to the hills?

1. Nadir Shah
2. Mongol
3. British
4. Maratha

Q. When the Mughal empire declined, artists who were patronised by them ___________.

1. changed their profession
2. moved to foreign countries
3. moved to the courts of the Rajputs and the Deccan states
4. became impoverished

Q. Basholi style of miniature paintings developed in __________.

1. present-day Madhya Pradesh
2. present-day Assam
3. Himalayan foothills around modern-day state of Himachal Pradesh
4. present-day Rajasthan

Q. In the context of medieval art, miniatures are __________.

1. small-sized stone sculptures
2. small-sized ivory sculptures
3. small-sized bronze idols
4. small-sized paintings

Q. Match the following:

1. Puri
2. Kangra
3. Kerala