associated with the Virgin as an allegorical symbol of her purity and virginity a symbol in portraits of marital fidelity or simply an indication of the status a symbol of luxury in still life or without a symbolic meaning, they are attractive, exotic birds, which make for striking visual motifs

2. associated with the Virgin as an allegorical symbol of her purity and virginity
a symbol in portraits of marital fidelity or simply an indication of the status
a symbol of luxury in still life
or without a symbolic meaning, they are attractive, exotic birds, which make for striking visual motifs

3. The Parrot in the painting
(2)

4. The profane parrot …

6. Parrot in portrait …

7. a married women
a tree
and
a parrot, symbol of the chastity,
innocence and purity of the Virgin
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach l'Ancien
Portraits Anna Cuspinian
Portrait de Anna Putsch, première femme de
Johannes Cuspinian
1502
Oskar Reinhart Collection, Winterthur

11. a lady
four bridesmaids
a dog
and
an indicator of high social status:
a parrot
Lavinia Fontana
Portrait Of Five Women With A Dog And A
Parrot
Portrait de cinq femmes, avec un chien et un
perroquet
-
Private collection

14. a pretty young girl
and
a brilliant red macaw …
a woman with a parrot symbolizing luxury,
exoticism and moral laxity
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
A young Woman with a Macaw
La jeune femme au perroquet
1760-1761
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

17. an allegory of the five senses...?
the nosegay, smel
the orange, taste
the man’s monocle, sight and touch
and
the parrot-confidant, hearing
Édouard Manet
Une jeune dame en 18661, dit aussi La Femme au perroquet
A Young Lady in 1866 or Lady with a Parrot
1866
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

21. a woman
a parrot
and
Courbet’s challenge to the French
Academy
COURBET, Gustave
Woman with a Parrot
La Femme au perroquet
1866
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

25. a transcended expression of female
eroticism ...
an odalisque
a blue divan
a drapery with pink tones
a golden cushion
and
an exotic parrot
Eugène Delacroix
Woman with a Parrot
Femme caressant un perroquet
1827
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon

29. a man
a grenade
and
a parrot
in art, the parrot usually do not appear with
the man ... here is a symbol of erudition,
eloquence, inspiration
Niccolò dell'Abbate
Man with Parrot
L'homme au perroquet
1540
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

32. in addition to pheasants, a peacock, an apple and a deer -
all symbolic:
a lion, Jerome's companion in the desert
a beaver symbolic of industriousness
a squirrel indicating frugality
a parrot to signal the Annunciation
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach l'Ancien
Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg as Saint Jerome
L'archevêque de Mayence Albert en « saint Jérôme dans son étude »
1526
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota

36. the hairy-faced Arrigo, a sufferer from hypertrichosis
the dwarf Amon
the mad Peter
and
the monkey, dogs and the macaw
a portrait of three famous "monsters" of the court of
Naples...
in harmony with animals - who sometimes have more
wisdom than humans ...
Agostino Carracci
Triple Portrait of Arrigo, Pietro and Amon
Arrigo le velu, Pietro le fou et Amon le nain
1598-1600
Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

41. Parrot in genre painting

42. a dog
and
a parrot
… it seems the serenade is for this beautiful talker
(the dogs don't understand music)
Gerard van Honthorst
Musical Group on a Balcony
Groupe musical sur un balcon
1622
Getty Center, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

46. two ladies wearing robes with immodest décolleté
a kerchief, perhaps a token of "bonus amor"
a pair of ladies' shoes
a peacock
and
a parrot
Vittore Carpaccio
Deux dames vénitiennes
Two Venetian Ladies
1510
Museo Correr, Venice

51. Parrot in still life …

52. a very beautiful silver vase decorated with golden mascarons
an elegant, fine-rimmed silver dish
a golden-lidded chalice bearing a fine statuette of Mars
... symbols of the vanity of riches and power under the placid
eye of
a parrot
Georg Flegel
Still-life with Parrot
Nature morte au perroquet
1630
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

55. a unusual display of
riches
and
a parrot
Jan Davidszoon de Heem
Richly Set Table With Parrot
Table Richement Dressée
Avec Perroquet
1650
Akademie der bildenden
Künste Wien, Vienna

58. Parrot in mythology …

59. Orpheus’ music
and
the Savery’s idyllic landscape – part
realistic, part otherworldly ...
a magnificent horse, a camel
a white elephant
ducks, swans
geese, long-legged storks
and
a gaudy parrot
Roelandt Savery
Orpheus
Orphée
1628
National Gallery, London

64. Urania, holding an armillary sphere
Apollo drives the chariot of the sun
Diana the chariot of the moon
a turkey keeping company with an ostrich
and
an owl with a parrot
Jan Brueghet the Elder
Jan Brueghel l'Ancien
L’Air
Air
1611
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon

70. Bird's Concert …

71. a peacock
a grey heron, a pigeon...
a chicken and a rooster
an jay, the only singer in the troupe...
and
a scarlet macaw with its flamboyant plumage
and
a partition practically thrown
(… unreadable - which may mean that there is not
much to expect from the concert!)
Jan Fyt
Concert of Birds
Le concert d'oiseaux
1658
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

75. an owl with a sheet music
a peacock and a toucan
a swan and a scarlet macaw
... are each adding their own song to the
cacophonous concert of cawing, screeching,
squawking, crowing and cooing
Jan van Kessel the Elder
The Mockery of the Owl
Le concert d’oiseaux ou Le concert du hibou
ou Le persiflage du hibou
-
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen,
Antwerp

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