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SSC CPO 2020 PYQ — Question 90

SSC CPO - 23 Nov 2020 - Shift 1 • General Awareness • Q90

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The ‘Gandhara’ School of Art was influenced by the art from which of the following
European countries?

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Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is option 4 i.e. Greece.

  • The Gandhara School of art had also developed in first century AD along with Mathura School during reign of Kushana emperor Kanishka. 
  •  The art of the Gandhara school was primarily Mahayana and shows Greco-Roman influence.
  • Greece, the southernmost of the countries of the Balkan Peninsula, bordered to the east by the Aegean sea, to the south by the mediterranean sea, and to the west by the Ionian Sea.