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Sibylla has a closet that is 100% full of fun swimsuits. Because it's nice to have something new every time you go to the pool or beach!
Drawn fantastically by @/mogy64!
Learn about Merian in these #ArtHerstory guest posts:
- #MariaSibyllavMerian’s Artistic Entomology, by Kay Etheridge, https://t.co/4ooGfecco4…
- The Protofeminist Insects of Giovanna Garzoni & #MariaSibyllaMerian, by
@emmasteinkraus https://t.co/LuJeK4dlTm
A woman ahead of her time: born on 2 April 1647, #MariaSibyllaMerian was one of the first to closely observe and record the process of #insect #metamorphosis. Her approach was only made popular by Linnaeus more than half a century later.
https://t.co/1hlUkcz0Zk
Farmer's peony with narcissus, as studied by Johanna Helena Herolt, daughter of Maria Sibylla Merian. Ran in the family, this natural talent!
As of December 2019, a painting by #MariaSibyllaMerian—Pomegranate & Menelaus Blue Morpho Butterfly, 1702–03, held by the @RCT—is included in the #CODARTCanon as one of 100 Dutch/Flemish masterpieces (as voted on by @CODART curator-members).
https://t.co/Fqe4YOJS4S
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.
Few artists do #nature like #MariaSibyllaMerian! In 1699 Merian traveled with her daughter to Suriname, a Dutch territory in South America, to paint its flora and fauna. Learn more about this trailblazing artist:
https://t.co/EWly1ksXEa
Butterflies, by Maria Sibylla Merian, artist and naturalist, born #OTD in 1647.
2/2 Pineapple & cockroaches, from The Insects of Suriname, 1719 edition. Brought to you by traveler, naturalist, & artist Maria Sibylla Merian
Born today in 1647, botanical artist Maria Sibylla Merian took an early interest in #entomology. She retained indigenous names for the not-yet-described species she found in Suriname and performed controlled laboratory experiments to investigate caterpillars' plant preferences.
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.
Maria Sibylla Merian 🇨🇭 (b. 2.4.1647)
'Branch of Genipapo with Long-Horned Beetle' (1703)
Watercolour
38.4 x 27.7 cm
Pioneering botanical artist Maria Sibylla Merian was born #OnThisDay in 1647.
Merian is famed for her colourful combination of art and science in her botanical drawings.
Find out more about her life and work: https://t.co/4Ua7VBytda
➤ Aunque ignorada durante mucho tiempo, es considerada como una de las más importantes iniciadoras de la entomología , gracias a sus detalladas observaciones y descripciones, con ilustraciones propias
➤ “Metamorfosis”, Maria Sibylla Merian, 1705,
@NHM_London©
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11/ Michelangelo's Ceiling.
II.) Sibyls and Prophets (some illustrations)
Delphic Sibyl
Barry Windsor-Smith, “Sibyla” (The Gorblimey Press/Black Lotus, 1979), portfolio of four colour prints. Presentation sleeve and colour print of the same image. https://t.co/HEGmTwK3sz
Barry Windsor-Smith, “Sibyla” (The Gorblimey Press/Black Lotus, 1979), portfolio of four colour prints.
Sigue Carla Berrocal (@pintamonas) hablándonos de Maria Sibylla Merian
Considerada como una de las más importantes pioneras de la entomología moderna 🦟
Gran parte de su trabajo está centrado en la flora de Surinam 🇸🇷
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The Cumaean Sibyl prophesied by singing the fates and writing on oak leaves. She would place these in the entrance of her cave. She lived for about 1000 years.She asked Apollo to live for as many years as a handful of sand in exchange for her virginity… 1/3 #FaustianFriday