Chinese vase, spectacular. Flowers, even more spectacular. Small bug, just hanging around on the table. As recorded by Maria Sibylla Merian, artist & naturalist. It's her beautiful day.

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Happy birthday Maria Sibylla Merian
Apr 2, 1647 – Jan 13, 1717 naturalist and scientific illustrator, and educator famous for her published entomology collections.

Every bit as good as but we never learned about her, though born 150 years before.

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

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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.

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Happy birthday Maria Sibylla Merian. The acclaimed, naturalist, illustrator, engraver, and educator, famous for her published entomology collections most notably of butterflies (and caterpillars), was born today in 1647.

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Banana Tree Flower with Io Moth, by Maria Sibylla Merian — who was born in 1647.

From her pioneering Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (Insects of Suriname), first published in 1705.

See more prints by her in our online prints shop: https://t.co/ASX37Nx31n

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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.

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Born on this day in 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.

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Birthday in the park: Maria Sibylla Merian, 1647-17, naturalist and scientific illustrator.....https://t.co/CbUFhoQvvL .........

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Day 1112 “Narzissen, Vergißmeinnicht und Schmetterling” (1659) Maria Sibylla Merian. Merian was born on April 2 in 1647 and this is a drawing she made at the tender age of 10. She was a German entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator.

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CoC Sibyl-シビュラ-
KP seesさん
case1 L'ossuaire / 榛名
case2 李 鼬瓏 / 焦げた玉葱さん
case3 小夜 / 慎さん
case4 朧 千草 / 杜

ENDAにてシナリオクリア
狂信者って楽しいですわ~🪓💕
神さまも皆もかわいい幸せだった🥳
ありがとうございました!❤️

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CoC第6版『Sibyl -シビュラ-』
KP:卯月ち
PL:うさぎさん(case.1/オスカー・コムストック)
りぉさん(case.2/イデア)
そそぎさん(case.3/加賀智)
シイナさん(case.4/月城 千世)

遂に終了!楽しい~!
END-Aにて探索者全生還でした!最初から最後までこいつはお祭り野郎だった

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CoC「Sibyl-シビュラ-」
case2・狂信者🎶
今週末行けるよ〜楽しみ🎶楽しみ🎶

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直筆サイン入りはがき(みたいな?)

"Sibyl"

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Some old Younger Sibyls i still like

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Metamorphosis of a Small Emperor Moth, after 1679.

Attributed to Dorothea Maria Gsell as part of the workshop of her mother, Maria Sibylla Merian.

(Rijksmuseum)

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sibyl自陣PC+NPC絵できたー!

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Each of the major figures on the ceiling was the result of serious preparations & anatomical study. Here’s one of the preparatory drawings for Adam as well as studies for the Libyan Sibyl. As the ceiling progressed he scratched from memory directly on the wet plaster.

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The Romans consulted the Sibylline Books during times of turmoil, for these Greek prophecies offered suggestions on how to navigate crises. In the 4th century the general Stilicho had them burned, for reasons unknown: the city of Rome soon fell.

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