Roelant Savery
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Roelant Savery was a Flanders-born Dutch Golden Age painter.
Landscape with Birds showing a dodo in the lower right and an unknown macaw on the left, by Roelant Savery, 1628
One of the most famous paintings of a dodo, from 1626. The image came into the possession of the ornithologist George Edwards, who later gave it to the British Museum. The same unknown macaw appears on the right
Still life (130x80cm, 1624). The largest painting he ever made, with 44 different species of animals and 63 species of flowers.
Dutch Golden Age
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The Dutch Golden Age was a period in the history of the Netherlands which roughly lasted from 1588, when the Dutch Republic was established, to 1672, when the Rampjaar occurred.
Roelant Savery
…Roelant Savery (or Roeland(t) Maertensz Saverij, or de Savery, or many variants; 1576 – buried 25 February 1639) was a Flanders-born Dutch Golden Age painter. Savery was born in Kortrijk. Like so many other artists, he belonged to an Anabaptist family that fled north from the Spanish-occupied Southern…
The Night Watch by Rembrandt (1642)
Fishing for Souls, allegory of the Protestant-Catholic struggle
A river landscape with fishermen in rowing boats, windmills beyond, 1679
Syndics of the Drapers' Guild by Rembrandt, depicting wealthy Amsterdam burghers