Landscape with Birds, Roelandt Savery (1622)
In his composition, Roelandt Savery made use of both the birds common to Europe and of those highly exotic. One of the rarest birds at the time was the double-wattled cassowary. From the zoological viewpoint, Savery painted this bird very accurately, as seen in the painting on the right. Unlike that, the king of birds, eagle, which dominates all the assembly, is captured in a rigid, rather unrealistic position which proves that Savery improvised in this case.
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