Insights Static Quiz -88, 2018 –Culture

Answer – c

• The entrance to the temple which may be a portico or colonnaded hall that incorporates space for a large number of worshippers and is known as a
• From the fifth century CE onwards, freestanding temples tend to have a mountainlike spire, which can take the shape of a curving shikhar in North India and a pyramidal tower, called a vimana, in South India

Source – Chapter 6, An Introduction to Indian Art Class 11th

Answer – a

During the sixteenth century, known as the Vijayanagar Period in Andhra Pradesh, the sculptors experimented with portrait sculpture in order to preserve knowledge of the royal patron for posterity. At Tirupati, life-size standing portrait statues were cast in bronze, depicting Krishnadevaraya with his two queens, Tirumalamba and Chinnadevi.

Source – Chapter 6, An Introduction to Indian Art Class 11th

Answer – c

• Gumbad is situated in Bijapur in the Bijapur District of Karnataka. It is the mausoleum of Muhammad Adil Shah (1626–1656) the seventh Sultan of the Adil Shahi Dynasty of Bijapur (1489–1686).
• Built by the ruler himself it is a striking edifice in spite of being unfinished.
• The Gumbad is a monumental square building topped with a circular drum over which rests a majestic dome

Source – Chapter 8, An Introduction to Indian Art Class 11^th

Answer – c

• Kerala painters (during the period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century) evolved a pictorial language and technique of their own while discriminately adopting certain stylistic elements from Nayaka and Vijayanagara schools.
• The painters evolved a language taking cues from contemporary traditions like Kathakali and kalam ezhuthu using vibrant and luminous colours, representing human figures in three dimensionality.
• Most of the paintings are seen on the walls of shrines and cloister walls of temples and some inside palaces. Thematically too, paintings from Kerala stand apart. Most of the narrations are based on those episodes from Hindu mythology which were popular in Kerala. The artist seems to have derived sources from oral traditions and local versions of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata for painted narration.

Source – Chapter 5, An Introduction to Indian Art Class 11th

Answer – d

• More than sixty sites from Kerala have been found with mural paintings which include three
  palaces—Dutch palace in Kochi, Krishnapuram palace in Kayamkulam and Padmanabhapuram palace.
• Among the sites where one can see the mature phase of Kerala’s mural painting tradition are Pundareekapuram Krishna temple, Panayanarkavu, Thirukodithanam, Triprayar Sri Rama temple and Trissur Vadakkunathan temple.

Source – Chapter 5, An Introduction to Indian Art Class 11th