Which of the following statements regarding Mughal paintings is/are correct? 1. The paintings of Akbar's time were mostly confined to book illustrations and portraits. 2. Mir Sayyid Ali of Herat and Khwaja Abdus Samad formed the nucleus of the Mughal School of painting which fused together the non-Islamic and Islamic elements. Select the correct answer using the code given below:

• A

  1 only
• B

  2 only
• Correct answer
  C

  Both 1 and 2
• D

  Neither 1 nor 2

Hence, the correct answer is option: 'C'.