The Mauritshuis exhibits works by Dutch Golden Age painters. He was the first person to paint a dodo and is the oldest Dutch artist known for creating still lifes of flowers.
In the early 17th century, Roland Savery (1576-1639) left Harlem for Prague to become court painter to Emperor Rudolf II. There he encountered an object that would cement his reputation as a key figure in the Dutch Golden Age. It was probably a stuffed dodo, and he scouted it among the emperor's vast collection of rare animals. Savery's numerous paintings and drawings of the dodo are among the most instantly recognizable depictions of this long-extinct bird, and are featured in “The Wonderful World of Roland Savery'' at the Mauritshuis in The Hague. ” (February 8th to May 20th), these works are the focus of the exhibition. . The exhibition also includes some of his landscapes. Pioneering still life painting. A cacophonous fantasy scene filled with flora and fauna. And several of his street figures in Prague are the earliest known modern images of European Jewry. For more information, please visit the Mauritshuis website.
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