Sahibdin, the master painter of the Mewar workshop, worked under which ruler?
- A.Maharana Amar Singh I
- B.Maharana Jagat Singh I
- C.Maharana Pratap
- D.Maharana Fateh Singh
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Maharana Jagat Singh I, in whose reign in the second quarter of the seventeenth century the Mewar school reached its finest period at Udaipur. The palace maintained a painting workshop, and Sahibdin was its leading hand. He illustrated the Ramayana, the Bhagavata Purana, the Rasikpriya of Keshavdas and a Ragamala, filling each page with closely packed figures against red and yellow grounds, and his sets are among the most important illustrated manuscripts produced in Rajasthan. A, Maharana Amar Singh I ruled when the earlier Chawand Ragamala of 1605 was painted by Nisardin. C, Maharana Pratap belongs to the sixteenth century and to the period before the school was formed. D, Maharana Fateh Singh ruled at the end of the nineteenth century, long after Sahibdin.
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Practice Questions
View allThe famous painting Bani Thani belongs to which school of Rajasthani painting?
- A.Bundi
- B.Kishangarh
- C.Nathdwara
- D.Bikaner
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Bani Thani is the best known single work of the Kishangarh sub-style of the Marwar school, painted in the middle of the eighteenth century, and the art historian Eric Dickinson called it the Indian Mona Lisa.
Read the full explanation →Who painted the Bani Thani portrait?
- A.Sahibdin
- B.Nihal Chand
- C.Sahib Ram
- D.Ruknuddin
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Nihal Chand developed the elongated, idealised face that defines the Kishangarh style and used it for Radha and Krishna as well as for the single portrait now called Bani Thani, often set against the water of the Gundalao lake.
Read the full explanation →Which school of Rajasthani painting is most famous for its hunting or shikar scenes?
- A.Mewar
- B.Kota
- C.Jaipur
- D.Jodhpur
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Kota separated from Bundi in the seventeenth century and, while it inherited Bundi's feeling for dense forest and water, it turned that setting to a subject of its own, the royal hunt.
Read the full explanation →Pichhwai paintings are chiefly associated with which place in Rajasthan?
- A.Nathdwara
- B.Bundi
- C.Shekhawati
- D.Kishangarh
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A Pichhwai is a large painting on cloth that is hung behind the image of Shrinathji in the temple, the word itself meaning that which hangs at the back, and it is changed according to the season and the festival being observed.
Read the full explanation →The earliest dated set of Ragamala paintings of the Mewar school was made at Chawand in 1605 by which artist?
- A.Sahibdin
- B.Nisardin
- C.Manohar
- D.Bagta
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A Ragamala is a series in which each musical mode is given a visual form, with a season, a time of day and a mood attached to it.
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