The Art History Mystery Challenge No. 9 Roelandt Jacobsz Savery - Landscape with Birds

The Art History Mystery Challenge

Welcome to our totally disorganized art museum! The challenge is to help us identify all the masterworks in our virtual museum. We'll post a piece of the painting and one clue to get you started. Can you name the artist and the title of the painting?

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Clue = Nationality - Flemish

Landscape with Birds by Savory Roelandt

There's a good amount of info about him on Wikipedia. Also a larger picture of the painting - which features a (long extinct) dodo bird.

Wow Callie, that was quick! Good going! You get to hold onto your award.

I found his choice of subjects really unusual. Especially for that time period.

Here's a link to the wikipedia info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roelant_Savery