Birds
Birds have long been a source of artistic inspiration.
A Landscape with Birds
Signed and dated 1615RCIN 405510
Dutch Golden Age painter Roelandt Savery is best known for painting the dodo before it became extinct, thus providing a key source for today’s understanding of its appearance. This painting depicts a wide variety of other birds in an eerie, dream-like landscape. Large numbers of herons, storks, bitterns and other species mill around in an overgrown, swampy riverscape, a large architectural ruin looming over them.