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Chola paintings at Brihadeswara show a portrait of Rajaraja with his mentor:Read the answer and worked solution →The Vijayanagara dynasty of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries had its capital at:Read the answer and worked solution →Paintings in the Virupaksha temple at Hampi show Vidyaranya, spiritual teacher of:Read the answer and worked solution →Lepakshi, with glorious Vijayanagara paintings in its Shiva temple, is near:Read the answer and worked solution →Vijayanagara painters showed faces in:Read the answer and worked solution →Nayaka paintings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are seen at Thiruparakunram, Tiruvarur and:Read the answer and worked solution →The Sri Krishna temple at Chengam in Arcot district has how many Ramayana panels?Read the answer and worked solution →Kerala mural painters took cues from Kathakali and which ritual floor painting?Read the answer and worked solution →Among Kerala mural sites are three palaces: Krishnapuram, Padmanabhapuram and the Dutch palace in:Read the answer and worked solution →Pithoro, a traditional mural form, belongs to parts of Rajasthan and:Read the answer and worked solution →Warli paintings are a traditional mural form of:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Kerala mural sitesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Vijayanagara and Nayaka sitesRead the answer and worked solution →Run the dynastiesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the mural wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Deccan or KeralaRead the answer and worked solution →Sort by dynastyRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Later murals bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Large-scale Indo-Islamic building activity in India began in the early thirteenth century under the:Read the answer and worked solution →Brackets, pillars and lintels supporting a flat roof is a technique called:Read the answer and worked solution →True arches were built with interlocking blocks called voussoirs and fitted with:Read the answer and worked solution →Forbidden to depict living forms, Muslim builders developed the arts of arabesque, geometrical patterns and:Read the answer and worked solution →Bijapur and Golconda represent which style of Indo-Islamic architecture?Read the answer and worked solution →Thick Indo-Islamic walls of rubble masonry were cased over with limestone plaster called:Read the answer and worked solution →Daulatabad fort was earlier known as:Read the answer and worked solution →Which fort's steep height made it invincible and overawed Babur?Read the answer and worked solution →The largest fort in Asia, occupied longest as a seat of power, is:Read the answer and worked solution →The Qutub Minar is a tapering tower how many feet high?Read the answer and worked solution →The Qutub Minar is divided into how many storeys?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Chola paintings at Brihadeswara show a portrait of Rajaraja with his mentor:

  1. Mangalesha
  2. Kuruvar
  3. Vidyaranya
  4. Bukkaraya
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Correct answer: B. Kuruvar

1. Shiva in Kailash and as Nataraja also appear. 2. Kuruvar was Rajaraja's mentor. 3. The paintings line the narrow passage round the shrine. _Source: syllabus An Introduction to Indian Art, Chapter 5, Later Mural Traditions._

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The Vijayanagara dynasty of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries had its capital at:

  1. Badami
  2. Kochi
  3. Hampi
  4. Trichy
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Correct answer: C. Hampi

1. It controlled the region from Hampi to Trichy. 2. Hampi was the capital. 3. The Virupaksha temple there has ceiling paintings. _Source: syllabus An Introduction to Indian Art, Chapter 5, Later Mural Traditions._

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Paintings in the Virupaksha temple at Hampi show Vidyaranya, spiritual teacher of:

  1. Rajaraja Chola
  2. Mahendravarma
  3. Krishnadevaraya
  4. Bukkaraya Harsha
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Correct answer: D. Bukkaraya Harsha

1. He is carried in a palanquin in a procession. 2. Vidyaranya taught Bukkaraya Harsha. 3. Incarnations of Vishnu are also shown. _Source: syllabus An Introduction to Indian Art, Chapter 5, Later Mural Traditions._

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