Manṣūr

Manṣūr (flourished 17th century, India) was a leading member of the 17th-century Jahāngīr studio of Mughal painters, famed for his animal and bird studies. The emperor Jahāngīr honoured him with the title Nādir al-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...