#blue-and-yellow macaw

[arthistoryanimalia]

Jakob Bogdani (Hungarian, c.1660-1724) Asian Silkie Fowls and South American Parrot in an Imaginary Landscape, c. 1700-10 Oil on canvas, 86 1/2 x 45 1/4 in Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

🆔 the “South American Parrot” is a Blue-and-Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna)

“Bogdani specialized in animal painting in an era when many wealthy Europeans paid large sums of money to obtain rare birds and other seemingly exotic animals from the far corners of the globe. As colonial empires were expanding at the turn of the 18th century, the traffic in species from remote locations was just another facet of the general fashion for foreign goods, such as food and luxury items, that asserted the international pretensions of the ruling classes of Europe.

As an artist who made his career in an international context, Bogdani was truly a man of his time. He was born in Hungary, but he established his reputation as a painter in Amsterdam before relocating to England toward the end of the 168os. This painting is characteristic of his English period and exhibits a familiarity with the subject matter that was gained by his close study of the collection of exotic birds amassed by the dukes of Marlborough. The inclusion of a macaw from South America and a family of silkie fowls from the Far East points to the extensive colonizing ambitions associated with the fascination for the exotic at the dawn of the so-called Enlightened Age.”

[okapiaconcolor]

[atamagaitai]

white-throated toucan (Ramphastos tucanus) by Mariana Moreira

[necrofauna]

[nature-nerd-sarah]

Posting birds until I hit post limit: Blue-and-yellow macaw

[my-friend-meowth]

Large and Loud parrots 🦜

[motherfuckingcat]

[zinoath]

finished a sketch from yesterday then did a lot of people’s parrots

[auroraocaso]

[birdirectory]

Romeo and Ben

[pochqmqri]

Blue-and-yellow macaw at Billabong Sanctuary near Townsville, QLD, Australia  

[plusie]

💫 - blue and gold macaws :)

[okapiaconcolor]

[atamagaitai]

blue-and-yellow macaw (Ara ararauna) by Douglas Filho

[nigelpuppy]

💥💥💥

print + sticker

[unkindhands]

What the FUCK do you mean he stole a BIRD??

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