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Description: | The painting depicts a lush landscape, filled with exotic beasts that have been charmed by the music of Orpheus. Orpheus can be seen in the distance, in a little glade, playing his lyre. In the foreground various domestic, wild, and exotic animals have gathered; among them are horses, cattle, geese, deer, camels and lions. Savery was a painter who specialised in landscapes populated with animals; so Orpheus, the Garden of Eden, Noah and the Ark, were all popular subjects in his oeuvre. His paintings tend to follow a similar format, with standardised representations of the animals used for every subject. | Subjects: | camels geese cattle mythology (Orpheus); landscape; animal (horse lions) deer | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Savery, Roelandt (Flemish draftsman, painter, and printmaker; 1576-1639) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8694... | Go to resource |
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