ARTS OF HINDOSTAN PIECES TOGETHER A SHORT HISTORY OF THE MUGHAL FLOWER-FROM ITS ORIGIN IN ATELIERS IN MEDIEVAL INDIA TO ITS UBIQUITY ACROSS TIME.

The Mughal emperor Jahangir was famously enraptured by the beauty of flowering plants that he saw on his visit to Kashmir in the spring of 1620.

- 

The story goes that he asked the talented Mansur to paint over 100 images of flowers, of which, sadly, very few have survived. Also in Jahangir's reign, the Jesuits are known to have brought floral prints with a variety of flower motifs to the Mughal court. Mughal artists copied these motifs and rendered them beautifully on the margins of royal albums. And the Mughal flower style was born.