Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Art and Culture

Assertion: Buddhist visual art developed from symbolic evocation of the Buddha toward the narration of his life and previous births.<br/><br/>Which of the following observations support the Assertion?<br/>1. Early art represented the Buddha through footprints, stupas, a lotus throne and the chakra.<br/>2. Later railings and toranas depicted events from the Buddha’s life and Jataka stories.<br/>3. Sculptors employed synoptic, continuous and episodic modes of narration.

  1. 1 only
  2. 1 and 2 only
  3. 1, 2 and 3
  4. 2 and 3 only
  1. A large number of spindles and spindle whorls have been found in Harappan houses. The whorls were made from…
  2. Arrange the following artistic developments in chronological order: 1. Bharhut’s low-relief, linear narratives…
  3. Arrange the following developments in chronological order: 1. Paintings in Badami under the early Chalukyas 2.…
  4. Arrange the following developments in chronological order, from earliest to latest: 1. Mahendravarman I’s…
  5. Arrange the following developments in their most appropriate chronological sequence: 1. The stupa at Sanchi…
  6. Arrange the following monuments or developments in chronological order, from earliest to latest: 1. Deogarh…