Dr. Peter Paul Rubensさんのイラストまとめ

2/2 The artist in a yellow coat, with disturbingly undefined eyes. Leoid Pasternak. It's his birthday.

Farmer's peony with narcissus, as studied by Johanna Helena Herolt, daughter of Maria Sibylla Merian. Ran in the family, this natural talent!

Another side of nature's wonders: guava tree w/ army ants, pink-toed tarantulas (yes!!), huntsman spiders, & ruby-topaz hummingbird, v. dead. Wow. By Maria Sibylla Merian, born OTD in 1647.

2/2 A Parrot Tulip, Auriculas, and Red Currants, with a Magpie Moth.

2/2 Pineapple & cockroaches, from The Insects of Suriname, 1719 edition. Brought to you by traveler, naturalist, & artist Maria Sibylla Merian

2/2 Life cycle of the Menelaus Blue Morpho butterfly, beautifully documented by Maria Sibylla Merian for her book on the insects of Surinam. Today is her day.

Born on this day 1647, naturalist & artist Maria Sibylla Merian. Here, Teucer Owl Butterfly & Rainbow Whiptail Lizard among the bananas, from her book The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname, 1705.

2/2 Way the star shines on this king like a spotlight is amazing. Even his page is filled with wonder.

Francisco de Goya: Self-portrait being treated by Dr. Arrieto, 1820. Just in case he didn’t survive (but he did!). Today has been his day.

Hunting very large crocodiles in Florida, 1591. OK, Theodor de Bry had never actually witnessed this, but he had a vivid imagination. And today is his day.