Ustad Mansur
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Ustad Mansur was a seventeenth-century Indian painter and naturalist who served as a Mughal court artist. During this period, he excelled at depicting plants and animals, was the earliest artist to de
Tulip from Kashmir (c. 1610) by Mansur Naqqash
A painting depicting the dodo ascribed to Ustad Mansur dated to the period 1628–1633. This is one of the few coloured images of the dodo made from a living specimen.
Dipper (c. 1620) from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Siberian crane (c. 1625)
Siberian crane
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The Siberian crane, also known as the Siberian white crane or the snow crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes. They are distinctive among the cranes: adults are nearly all snowy white, exc
Ustad Mansur
…this period, he excelled at depicting plants and animals, was the earliest artist to depict the dodo in colour, and was the first to illustrate the Siberian crane. Towards the end of Akbar's reign, he gained the title of ustad (master) and during the reign of Mughal Emperor Jahangir his masterpieces earned him…
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Juveniles at Oka Nature Reserve nursery
A Siberian crane in Keoladeo National Park, near Bharatpur, India, in 1996.