The poet crowned by two apes at the feast of the animals

Roelant Savery was a Habsburg Netherlandish painter specializing in landscape and animal subjects during the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. Active across the Low Countries and Central Europe, he developed a distinctive approach to depicting dense, imaginative landscapes populated with exotic creatures, often rendered with meticulous attention to naturalistic detail. His works combined observation of the natural world with fantastical compositional arrangements, influencing the development of landscape painting in Northern Europe.