Ustad Mansur

Ustad Mansur (* unknown; † after 1621), known as Ustad ( "Master " ) Mansur, was one of the most famous miniaturist of the Indian Mughal Empire in the 16th and 17th centuries. He first worked for the Mughal Emperor Akbar (r. 1556-1605 ), and later for its successor Jahangir. For Akbar, he led in the late 16th century include numerous illustrations to whose biography Akbarnama and biography of its ancestor Babur, the Baburnama from. Special promotion and appreciation he learned by Jahangir, who was considered outspoken art lovers and him the title of Nadir - ul Azr awarded. Mansur accompanied Jahangir on many trips on which he created numerous very vivid and realistic depictions of nature, especially birds and flowers. This brought him great fame and have some high value for the natural and cultural history. So Mansur illustration of a Dodo one of the few realistic representations of a live specimen of this extinct in the 17th century bird. Mansur representation of a turkey is the earliest evidence of the attitude of this imported from America bird in India.

Source

• Mansur. In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker et al: General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Volume 24, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p 37

• Indian painter
• Miniaturist
• Painter of modern times
• Person ( Mughal Empire )
• Born in the 16th century
• Died in the 17th century
• Man