Mansur

Mansur
Mansur [man soor′]
A.D. 712?-775; Arab caliph (754-775): founder of Baghdad: also al-Mansur

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▪ Indian painter
also called  Ustād (“Master”) Manṣūr 
flourished 17th century, India

      a leading member of the 17th-century Jahāngīr studio of Mughal (Mughal painting) painters, famed for his animal and bird studies. The emperor Jahāngīr honoured him with the title Nādir-ul-ʿAsr (“Wonder of the Age”), and in his memoirs Jahāngīr praises Manṣūr as “unique in his generation” in the art of drawing. Manṣūr was primarily a natural history painter who avoided personal expression in his careful studies.

      Manṣūr made many studies of natural life under the direct orders of his patron, who was passionately fond of recording the rare specimens that were brought before him. A turkey cock painted about 1612 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London) is attributed to Manṣūr and marks that bird's first appearance in India. Similarly, while on a trip to the Kashmir Valley, Jahāngīr ordered Manṣūr to paint as many varieties of local flowers as possible, stating in his memoirs that the number depicted exceeded 100.

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