Roelant Savery

Roelant Savery.

Roelant Savery (eller Roeland(t) Maertensz Saverij, eller de Savery, eller andra varianter), född 1576 i Kortrijk i Flandern, död 1621 i Utrecht, var en holländsk konstnär.

Roelant Savery studerade måleri hos sin bror Jaques i Amsterdam. År 1604 kallades han till Rudolf II:s hov i Prag och han ingick senare även ett par år i kejsar Mattias hov innan han återvände till Amsterdam. År 1619 gick han med i Sankt Lukasgillet i Utrecht och levde där till sin död. Roelant Saverys vanligaste motiv var landskap med olika djur. Han målade även blomsterstilleben och hans stilistiska utveckling av genren kom att kraftigt påverka de följande hundra årens holländska blomstermåleri.[1]

Savery är också känd för att ha gjort ett antal avbildningar av den numera utdöda dronten.[2]

Galleri (i urval)

  • Roelant Savery Flower still-life 1603.jpg
  • Roelant Savery Blumenstillleben 1612.jpg
  • Landscape with the Temptation of Saint Anthony by Roelant Savery, Getty Center.JPG
  • Edwards' Dodo.jpg

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Noter

  1. ^ Taylor, Paul: ”Dutch flower paintings 1600-1720”, 1995, sid. 142.
  2. ^ Hume, Julian P.: "The history of the Dodo Raphus cucullatus and the penguin of Mauritius", Historical Biology 18(2), 2006, sid 73.

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Roelant Savery Blumenstillleben 1612.jpg
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Blumenstilleben in einer Glasvase mit Eidechse und Schmetterling in einer Nische.

Flower bouquet in a glass vase in a niche with a lizard and a dragonfly, 1612
title QS:P1476,de:"Blumenstilleben in einer Glasvase mit Eidechse und Schmetterling in einer Nische."
label QS:Lde,"Blumenstilleben in einer Glasvase mit Eidechse und Schmetterling in einer Nische."
Roelant Savery - het gulden cabinet.png
Roelant Savery in Cornelis de Bie's Gulden Cabinet.
Edwards' Dodo.jpg
One of the most famous and often-copied paintings of a Dodo specimen, as painted by Roelant Savery in the late 1620s. The image came into the possession of the ornithologist George Edwards, who later gave it to the British Museum, hence the name. The bird swallowing a frog in the lower right may be the likewise extinct Red Rail. It has also been suggested that the two parrots are the extinct Lesser Antillean Macaw (left) and Martinique Macaw (right).
Roelant Savery Flower still-life 1603.jpg
A total of twenty flower still lives by Savery is known. This and an identical version signed and dated by Savery in New York are the earliest by Savery and the earliest dated flower still lives from the Northern Netherlands. At first sight this bouquet seems to have been painted from life. However, it is composed of plants that flower in different parts of the year. The bouquet is lit from different angles, so that more depth is created. The colors are bright and light. Until 1982 the date was read as 1601 or 1604. In 1982 Segal was the first to read it as 1603. An almost identical version on copper measuring 32 by 23 cm, signed and dated similarly is in the collection of F. Petschek in New York.