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2/2 Two butterflies. Studied in Amsterdam in 1706 by Maria Sibylla Merian. It was her day.
Flowers in a Chinese vase. And some insects. By Maria Sibylla Merian, artist & naturalist, who was born on this day in 1647.
#ArtHistory 1647
Naturalist & #artist Maria Sibylla Merian was #bornonthisday in #Frankfurt.
"Art & #Nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another."
#art #artists #fineart #illustration #germanart #painting #paintings #artquotes
#discoverher #botd
#HappyBirthday to the incredibly talented Maria Merian who was born #OTD in 1647. She was a remarkable woman who combined her passion for natural history with her skill in art, resulting in some stunning artwork #HerNaturalHistory #SciArt
Happy Bday Maria Sibylla Merian (born #OTD 1647)! Celebrate with "De Europischen insecten" (1730), a Dutch translation of Merian's earlier "Der Raupen", with #SciArt drawn from first-hand observations of insect metamorphosis. In #BHLib via @SILibraries: https://t.co/xm9wccrUi4
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. @womensart1
Maria Sibylla Merian born #OTD 1647 was a self-taught naturalists and artist who created stunningly detailed illustrations of insects and plants. I was humbled to draw her portrait for the @massivesci #sciencetarot #inspiration #sciart
@KS1729 And it was Maria Sibylla Merian, a German-born naturalist, who documented Metamorphosis for the first time.
In 1799, she sailed to Suriname from Europe looking for insects - something no ladies were permitted to do back then.The results were a spectacular treasure for Science!
plumeria..... I almost forgot about her, saw a video that @kianamaiart shared and cried about how cool she is 💀 #Pokemon #Plumeria
Messy doodles of Guzma and Plumeria in honor of them finally being in the Sun & Moon anime #pokemon #guzma #plumeria #PokemonSunMoon
Here's the second comic featuring Alstroemeria!
Amana please, you've been pampering Tenka too much. Let her do things on her own for once lel.
#シャニマス #idolmaster
Spiders, ants and hummingbird on a branch of a guava - Maria Sibylla Merian, 1705. (Colored copper engraving from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, Plate XLIII.) #Merian
"Erucarum ortus" (1718) is a Latin translation of Maria Sibylla Merian's 2nd work, "Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung", depicting first-hand observations of insect life cycles & their food plants. See it in #BHLib via @LloydLibraryMus ➡️ https://t.co/iFcktbZ4vt #HerNaturalHistory
Maria Sibylla Merian’s early 18thc natural history illustrations, she was a major contributor to #entomology – particularly with her research on the metamorphosis of butterflies