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| 3201 | What is a muraqqa in Mughal art? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Origin and development |
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| 3202 | Which feature of later Mughal painting is most clearly due to European influence? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Origin and development |
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| 3203 | In a Mughal workshop, one artist made the outline drawing and another applied the colours. What does this sho… | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Origin and development |
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| 3204 | Which statement best explains why Mughal painting differs from pure Persian painting? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Origin and development |
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| 3205 | The Hamzanama, painted on large sheets of cloth, was produced under which emperor? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Painting under Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan |
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| 3206 | Ustad Mansur is best known for paintings of which subject? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Painting under Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan |
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| 3207 | Which title did Jahangir give to the painter Abul Hasan? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Painting under Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan |
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| 3208 | The Razmnama, illustrated in Akbar's atelier, is a Persian translation of which text? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Painting under Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan |
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| 3209 | A painting shows an emperor in stiff, formal profile at a jewel-like court assembly, with every figure arrang… | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Painting under Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan |
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| 3210 | In what view are most Mughal portraits drawn? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Themes and features |
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| 3211 | Which is a historical record of Akbar's reign illustrated in his atelier? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Themes and features |
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| 3212 | Which statement contrasts Mughal and Rajput painting correctly? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Themes and features |
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| 3213 | A painting of a turkey cock shows each feather and the bird's colours with almost scientific accuracy. Under … | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Themes and features |
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| 3214 | Which feature is LEAST typical of Mughal painting? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Themes and features |
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| 3215 | Deccani painting developed mainly in the courts of which rulers? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Origin and development |
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| 3216 | Which feature is characteristic of Deccani painting? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Origin and development |
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| 3217 | Which group of influences shaped Deccani painting? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Origin and development |
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| 3218 | How does Deccani painting generally differ from Mughal painting of the same period? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Origin and development |
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| 3219 | Which statement about Deccani painting after the Mughal conquest of the Deccan sultanates is most accurate? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Origin and development |
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| 3220 | The Tarif-i-Hussain Shahi was produced at which Deccani court? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Ahmednagar, Bijapur and Golconda |
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| 3221 | Which ruler of Bijapur wrote the Kitab-i-Nauras? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Ahmednagar, Bijapur and Golconda |
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| 3222 | Which dynasty ruled Golconda? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Ahmednagar, Bijapur and Golconda |
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| 3223 | The Nujum-ul-Ulum, an illustrated manuscript of 1570 dealing with stars, weapons and symbols, is linked to wh… | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Ahmednagar, Bijapur and Golconda |
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| 3224 | Which matching of Deccani court, dynasty and example is fully correct? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Ahmednagar, Bijapur and Golconda |
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| 3225 | Who is regarded as the leading founder of the Bengal School? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Origin of the Bengal School |
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| 3226 | Which British art teacher supported Abanindranath in reviving Indian traditions? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Origin of the Bengal School |
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| 3227 | The Japanese thinker who visited Calcutta and promoted the idea of a shared Asian culture was | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Origin of the Bengal School |
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| 3228 | The Bengal School was partly a reaction against which kind of art? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Origin of the Bengal School |
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| 3229 | Which statement about "The Passing of Shah Jahan" by Abanindranath Tagore is most accurate? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Origin of the Bengal School |
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| 3230 | Which technique is most closely associated with the Bengal School? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Features and artists |
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| 3231 | Which Bengal School artist made the Haripura Congress posters? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Features and artists |
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| 3232 | Which artist was associated with Kala Bhavana at Santiniketan and the illustration of the Constitution of Ind… | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Features and artists |
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| 3233 | Gaganendranath Tagore is notable among Bengal artists because he | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Features and artists |
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| 3234 | A student describes a painting: soft, misty colours, slender figures, a scene from Indian legend, painted in … | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Features and artists |
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| 3235 | Abanindranath Tagore's "Bharat Mata" was painted in the context of which movement? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Cultural nationalism and art |
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| 3236 | In "Bharat Mata", how many arms does the figure have? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Cultural nationalism and art |
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| 3237 | The sheaves of rice held by Bharat Mata most likely symbolise | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Cultural nationalism and art |
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| 3238 | Which artist drew on Kalighat folk painting to create a bold, simple Indian idiom? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Cultural nationalism and art |
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| 3239 | Which statement best explains the link between cultural nationalism and the Bengal School? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Cultural nationalism and art |
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| 3240 | Which artist founded the Cholamandal Artists' Village near Chennai? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Modern Indian painting |
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| 3241 | "Three Girls" and "Bride's Toilet" are works by which painter? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Modern Indian painting |
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| 3242 | G. R. Santosh is best known for which kind of painting? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Modern Indian painting |
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| 3243 | Paniker's "Words and Symbols" series is notable mainly because it | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Modern Indian painting |
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| 3244 | Which statement about Amrita Sher-Gil is most accurate? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Modern Indian painting |
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| 3245 | Which sculptor made "Santhal Family" at Santiniketan? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Modern Indian sculpture |
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| 3246 | The bronze "Triumph of Labour" in Chennai was made by | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Modern Indian sculpture |
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| 3247 | Which historical events most influenced Somnath Hore's art? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Modern Indian sculpture |
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| 3248 | Meera Mukherjee's bronzes drew on which traditional craft method? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Modern Indian sculpture |
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| 3249 | A sculpture shows thin, stretched human figures with rough, torn surfaces that suggest pain and hunger. Which… | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Modern Indian sculpture |
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| 3250 | In which type of printmaking does ink sit on the raised surface left after cutting away other areas? | Fine Arts/Visual Arts (Sculpture/Painting)/Commercial Art Graphic prints |
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