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Painting past times Ustud Mansur
Who Painted This #14 - The Answer
  • Title of the artwork: non applicable this week
  • Name of the creative mortal who created this artwork: attributed to Ustad Mansur - the leading nature painter at the courtroom of the Mughal emperor Jahangir.
  • Date it was created: no subsequently than middle 17th century - in all likelihood c.1625
  • Media used: I was alone expecting a few answers... nevertheless guesses ranged between opaque watercolour, gouache as well as egg tempera
  • Where it lives now: Institute of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg (but since the records are confusing I'm also accepting the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg)
At the real terminate of 1955 it occurred to me to watch an exhibition of former Indian as well as Western Farsi miniatures organised inward the Hermitage Museum inward Leningrad. These miniatures, belonging to the Hermitage as well as the Institute of Orientalistics of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. were real diverse. There were miniatures on historical, zoological, botanical subjects as well as and thence on. It was natural that source of all my attending was attracted past times wonderful pictures of birds, exhibited amid other miniatures. There were falcon, a guinea-fowl, a bustard, rock chats, finches, tragopans as well as and thence on. And alongside others an fantabulous motion-picture demonstrate of the dodo
An Indian motion-picture demonstrate of the Dodo by A. Iwanow - Petrograd 1958
  • Which ruler the painter worked for: Jahangir.  The point of bespeak this query is that this exceptional Moghul emperor was a passionate supporter of making records of the natural world.
  • The significance of this painting: It's the earliest known accurate paradigm of a dodo from life.  It's considered to last the well-nigh reliable paradigm of a dodo as it also fits the skeletons best.
Apparently ii alive specimens of the Dodo were brought to Republic of Republic of India inward the 1600s according to Peter Mundy, as well as the specimen depicted mightiness cause got been 1 of these.
This dodo's portrait is a role of an fantabulous educate of Indian as well as Western Farsi former miniatures real dissimilar past times their origin as well as subjects. In the middle of the eighteen th century all these pictures were provided with a wide ornamented edge as well as united inward 1 volume. This mass belongs at nowadays to the fine collection of Oriental manuscripts of the Institute of Orientalistics inward Leningrad....... It was rediscovered inward the collection of the Institute of Oriental studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences as well as created a sensation at the XII International Ornithological Congress at Helsinki inward 1958.An Indian motion-picture demonstrate of the Dodo by A. Iwanow - Petrograd 1958
For the wild fauna artist, the other birds depicted are:
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