Sample Quiz

Painter: Sahibdin, Circa: 18th century, Sub-school: Mewar(Udaipur)

1. The king and the queen are shown riding on a camel back in a desert background.
2. Their apparels are transparent and decorated with adornment.
3. Camel is running and fully decorated according to the status of the riders.
4. An attendant is proceeding ahead of the camel, while two male escorts with swords, lances\spears and daggers have been shown in motion. A white hound runs ahead of both of the escorts.
5. to show winding surface, green-yellow colours are used
6. The painting is surrounded by simple border of orange-colour. The calligraphic work in Devanagari Script on top of the painting.

Painter: Nuruddin, Circa: 1683 A.D., Sub-school: Bikaner

1. The painting has two panels: (i) upper panel: Krishna was sitting on an ornamented base of a hexagonal swing. Upper half blue coloured body is almost naked but few ornaments made of pearls and other jewels are around his neck that hanged on the chest, a yellow, thin lined scarf dangling from his shoulders and an ornamented crown on his head, round the waist he has worn and orange coloured Dhoti.
2. Krishna is looking towards Radha sitting on a balcony of his right side. Radha has worn traditional ghaghara and choli, she has covered her head with a transparent chunari. (ii) lower panel: Radha's attendant was standing beside Krishna taking some message of Radha (light violet and yellow stripped ghaghara and a matching choli).
3. Placid and bright colouring is the distinguished miniature of Bikaner style

Painter: Nihal Chand, Circa :1760 A.D., Sub-school: Kishangarh

1. Government of India had issued a postal stamp on this miniature painting.
2. Radha is smiling mysteriously and her eyes with womanly beauty
3. Radha's face has been shown large in size, the forehead is in proper curvature, the nose is long, sharp and pointed, the arched eyebrows and lips are thin and red
4. Black curly hair hanging down up to a waist and a thick long of hair is dangling down on the the cheek
5. She is softly holding 2 buds of lotus in her left hand, in her right hand she is holding her gold-studded bordered transparent chunari
6. Her apparels and jewels are according to the Rajput tradition.
7. The chunari is transparent so that the the worn jewels, clothes and parts of her body could be shown
8. the Background has different gleams of dark blue colour

Painter: Dana, Circa: 18th Century, Sub-school: Jodhpur

1. six princesses are playing polo or Chaugan
2. they are riding on their well-equipped horses of white, blue and deep grey coloured with royal apparels of different colours. they've been adorned with jewels, covering the heads with excellent adornments in different countenances.
3. in the front part of the background, grasses have been shown in a peculiar shape witha mixture of green, yellow and blue colours. the hind part has been given the perception of grass in a field.
4. in the upper part of the painting, calligraphic painting has been done.

Painter: Guman, Circa: 18th Century, Sub-school: Jaipur

1. Episode of Ramayana through 49 ordinary human figures.
2. It depicts two highly emotional scenes in one painting. Firstly, extreme happiness, when Rama meets his brothers, mothers and family members, and the secondly, extreme sorrow, when Rama learns about the sad demise of his father.
3. Dark skinned Rama, with halo, has been shown in ruddle-coloured clothes
4. All the mothers have been painted in white clothes.
5. Bharat and Shatrughna have worn similar light pink clothes.
6. The preceptors ahve been shown in white beard and wearing pink and ruddle-coloured clothes.
7. Sita and the other wives have worn pink coloured sarees.

Painter: Manaku, Circa: 1730 A.D., Sub-school: Basohli

1. Blue skinned Krishna has been showing singing and dancing with gopis on the bank of the river Yamuna.
2. There are necklaces around his neck made of pearls, down his loins he has worn a yellow coloured dhoti.
3. Five gopis, well decorated with multi-coloured transparent seeming apparels, doing coquettishness with Krishna. (faces of all of them are similar, charming with big eyes, eyebrows are curved like a bow, sufficient rounded foreheads and long charming noses are characterstics).
4. in the left side, gopi is trying to make something known to other gopis whereas in the right side, Radha is standing with folding hands with her female attendant holding an umbrella in one of her hands.

Painter: Nainsukh, Circa: 1785-90 A.D., Sub-school: Kangra

1. the inhabitants of Gokul, Nand, Yashoda and Krishna have been showing going to Vrindavana
2. thirteen human figures
3. 3 are swimmimg in the Yamuna, rest of the figures are in various countenances and wearing clothes of different colours on the other side of the river
4. Krishna, blue coloured, half naked, wearing different ornaments of gold and a large wreath of flowers round his neck. the golden crown on his head. He points towards the golden buildings of Vrindavana, peeking through the clouds and everyone looks at it surprisingly. Another crowned person, has put on blue-coloured costume is Balram. He too points towards Vrindawana.
5. On the left bank of the river, there is a bird sitting on a cut stem of a heavy tree. In the right side of the painting is a tree on which have been shown coiled around creepers

Painter: Ustad Faquirullah Khan, Circa: 1640 A.D., Period: Shahjahan

1. On request of Dara Shikoh, the lovely son of Shahjahan
2. During Shahjahan's regime, the fame of saint Kabir and Raidas was spread far and wide.
3. Saint Kabir has been shown weaving cloth out of his hut, Saint Raidas is sitting on a carpet on the ground
4. Both saints seem discussing on some mystery, they both have tied urbans on their heads (the tracing of ribs on half naked body is apparent).
5. Tracing of the hut is clear. shades used are only brown, black and white colours. the painter has drawn borders of sufficient width with 2 colours which is the specilaity of that school.

Painter: Miskin, Circa: 1585-1590 A.D., Period: Akbar

1. drawn for the manuscript of Harivansh Puran.
2. blue-skin Krishna has been shown lifting up the multi-coloured Govardhana parvata on his left hand as if it is weighless. Krishna has worn yellow clothes, one of the wreaths is made up of white, red, yellow and blue flowers and spread from his shoulders to his feet
3. He has a crown on his head, made of peacock's tail feathers. he's saying smthg to those Golkul dwellers who are standing with their cattle under the umbrella-shaped hill to refrain themselves from Indra's wrath.
4. hill have lights of different colours in Persian style, and have different creatures. trees have been shown with green and green-yellow colours whereas the dense clouds over the hill are dark blue in colour.

Painter: Ustad Mansoor, Circa: 1618-19A.D., Period: Jahangir, Collection: Maharaja Sawai Man Singh Museum, Jaipur

1. This falcon was presented to Jahangir by Shah Abbas, the Emperor of Iran. It was killed by a cat
2. The bird is painted in a white against the yellow background contrasted with the brownish black feathers of its folded wings. An isolated figure of the falcon on its perch in rigid profile is centrally positioned in the composition. Dark brown markings all over the wings suggest that it is in the likeness of the pet falcon of Jahangir
3. Its sharp beak and round vigilant eyes are painted in the shade of deep yellow ochre. the patches of dark brown marks are shown on the black feathers of its neck. A thin string is tied around the falcon's neck and hangs loosely to the ground
4. Devnagri script forming words Jahangir Paat Syah refering to the emperor's best falcon. there is a border with black colour, on which colour figures are drawn.

Painter: Haji Madni, Period: Provincial Mughal, Circa: 1740-50 A.D.

1. The elephants have been used for female members of groom side. A few male members of marriage procession have also been mounted on elephants for beating the big-sized kettle-drums.
2. on the right side, there is the well-equipped group of people of the bride family. 3, In the middle of the picture, Dara Shikoh mounted on a hale and hearty dark brown coloured caparisoned horse, in well decorated royal apparels, covering his face with the strands of pearls (people with his royal family are standing with him). Behind him, shahjahan mounted on a caparisoned horse, in royal appearance(around his face there is a halo with green colour)
3. colourful display of fireworks has been shown in back part. some ppl of the bridegroom's side taking a well-equipped platter as a gift are standing in the front row.
4. borders: red and blue colours on a base of golden colour.

Painter: Unknown, Circa: 1750 A.D., Sub-school: Golconda

1. Chand Bibi and 3 other female players playing polo in royal dresses, mounted on horses. The dress and the horse are of different colours.
2. In foreground, a source of water in which several white-coloured birds and flowers of red and blue colours have been shown. The hind part, is filled with greenery. The middle part of the ground is very undulating and hilly.
3. Players mounted on white and yellow horses are facing each other, trying to control the white ball with their sticks whereas the other 2 women are facing each other but there is sufficient distance between them. play controlling lady is lifting her hands upwards.
4. bg: a huge fort and its rampart. The sun in the sky with yellow colour. the upper and lower part of the painting, wide margins with green and yellow colours. calligraphic work with black colour in persian style.

Painter: Unknown, Circa: 1750-70 A.D., Sub-school: Hyderabad 1.Hazrat(a leading sufi in Delhi) has been shown in green clothes, tying up a turban around his head, sitting in a pose of deep thinking. Behind his head, a yellow-coloured halo in the form of the sun. His white beard gives him speciality. 2. Amir (a contemporary famous musician) is siiting on his knees, playing on a musical instrument. colour of his turban and angvastram is uniform and a red coloured waistband is tied. his black beard is a symbol of his younghood. 3. courtyard is in the form of thin red strips on yellow colour. it is surrounded on all of the four sides with a red coloured lattice. the front part has a 3d effect and both sides of the horizon, the flowering plants. a big tree with red and yellow-coloured fruits and flowers.