Insects and Flowers: The Art of Maria Sibylla Merian
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The artist and scientist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was born in Frankfurt, Germany, into a middle-class family of publishers and artists. With her meticulous depictions of insect metamorphosis, she raised the standards of natural history illustration and helped give birth to the field of entomology. At the age of fifty-two, Merian traveled with her younger daughter to Suriname, a Dutch territory in South America, to paint its exotic flora and...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0892369299
ISBN13:9780892369294
Release Date:September 2008
Publisher:J. Paul Getty Museum
Length:52 Pages
Weight:0.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.2" x 4.6" x 6.1"
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