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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Before the Deluge portrays Savery's vision of the world before the flood described in the Old Testament. Genesis, chapters 11-12, describes how God sent the flood as a punishment for humankind's wickedness. God instructed Noah to build an ark in which to save his own family and two of every kind of animal. Savery's painting depicts an antediluvian golden age, a lush, green and fertile land teeming with life. Such a reading reflected a view of the Flood as a second expulsion from Paradise with the ark anticipating the salvation to be brought to the whole of mankind by Christ. The theme enabled Savery to give full rein to his enjoyment in depicting a variety of birds and beasts including stag, doe, pelican in flight, swans, heron, crouching lion, horse, bull, camel, ostrich, parrots and a herd of horses. In the background, the ark itself can be glimpsed. The treatment of the painting gives it a tapestry-like' effect. | Subjects: | religion (The Deluge) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Savery, Roelandt (Flemish draftsman, painter, and printmaker; 1576-1639) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8520... | Go to resource |
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