This presentation illustrates how the depiction of animals reflected the passion for collection in the Baroque period.

1. Animals in the Baroque Period:
The Compulsion for Collection

2. Jan Brueghel the Elder
1568-1625

3. Entry of the Animals into Noah’s Ark, 1613

4. Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, 1610s

5. Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
with God, c. 1610s

6. Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, 1615

7. The Earthly Paradise and the Fall of Adam and
Eve (with Peter Paul Rubens), 1610-15

8. Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, c. 1615

9. Earthly Paradise, c. 1615

10. Earthly Paradise, c. 1615

11. Jacob Hoefnagel
1575-c. 1630

12. Study, 1592

13. Orpheus Charming the Animals

14. Roelandt Savery
1576-1639

15. Paradise, 1618

18. Earthly Paradise

19. The Garden of Eden

20. Orpheus Attacked by Bacchantes, 1620

21. Landscape with Wild Animals, 1622

22. Landscape with Birds, 1622

24. Landscape with Birds

25. Paradise, 1626

26. Orpheus Charming the Animals, 1626

27. Landscape with Wild Animals, c. 1629

28. Forest Landscape with Animals

29. Landscape with Animals

30. Paul de Vos
c. 1592-1678

31. Paradise

32. The Garden of Eden (with Jan Wildens)

33. Noah’s Ark

34. Jan Brueghel the Younger
1601-1678

35. Paradise

37. Jan van Kessel the Elder
1626-1679

38. Birds on a Riverbank, 1655

39. Birds

40. The Mockery of the Owl

41. Concert of the Birds, 1660

42. The Animals, 1660

43. Insects on a Stone Slab, 1660s

44. Allegory of Air, 1661

45. Harbor Scene with Fish, 1660

46. The Day’s Catch, 1661

48. Landscape with Cock and Turkey
Squabbling and Other Fowl, 1663

49. The Continent of Africa, 1666

50. The Continent of Africa, 1672

51. Melchior de Hondecoeter
c. 1636-1695

52. Pelican and Other Birds Near a Pool, 1680

53. Bird Concert, 1682

54. Bird Concert

55. Peacocks, 1683

56. The Menagerie, c. 1690

57. Other Artists

58. 41 Insects, Moths, and Butterflies
Wenceslaus Hollar, 1646

59. Punishment of a Hunter
Paulus Potter, c. 1647

60. Branch of a Guava Tree
Maria Sybilla Merian, c. 1705