Ustad Mansur was a Mughal painter at the court of the emperor Jahangir, where he served as the nadir al-asr, the wonder of the age. His luminous studies of birds and animals, including the famous portrait of a dodo, combine zoological precision with the refined miniature tradition.
Best known for: Bird and animal studies for the emperor Jahangir
Impressionism
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Light, weather and modern Paris on canvas.
Post-Impressionism
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Bold colour and personal vision past the Impressionists.
Japanese Woodblock
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Mount Fuji, the Great Wave and Edo street life.
Renaissance
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Italian and northern masters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Botanical & Natural History
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Plates of birds, flowers and insects drawn from life.
Pre-Raphaelite & Symbolist
20
Late Victorian myth, dream and gothic figure.
Art Nouveau Posters
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Mucha and Toulouse-Lautrec in the great Paris poster era.
Dutch Golden Age
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Vermeer, Rembrandt and the quiet light of 1600s Holland.
Maps & Celestial Charts
4
Engraved world maps and star atlases from the age of exploration.
Romanticism
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Storms, ruins and sublime landscapes from Turner, Friedrich and Goya.
Chinese Landscape
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Song, Yuan and Ming masters of the mountain-and-water tradition.
Persian, Mughal & Indian
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Miniatures and album leaves from the great Eastern courts.
Modernism & Abstraction
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Hilma af Klint, Mondrian, Kandinsky, Malevich and the abstract pioneers.
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