Not much is known about Ustad Mansur (Master Mansur), the best Nature painter of the Moghul era. Mansur was a court painter active between 1590 and 1624, the year he died. He was the first to paint a Dodo in color, a specimen having been brought to the court of Moghul Jehangir.
By Hari Krishna – Biggest Monolithic Bull (Nandi), CC BY 2.0,commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61279437
Seals with animal motifs from the ancient city of Harappan in the Indus valley, around 2200 BC:
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