Meet one of the most significant influencers of the field of entomology: Maria Sibylla Merian.

She was a 17th-century illustrator and naturalist with a lifelong interest in the life cycles of insects. This bouquet is from her book "The European Insects."

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Apesar de ter sido introduzido no Reboot, Gax existia na Continuidade Clássica. No entanto, seu DNA foi removido do Omnitrix pela onda de energia do Martelo Chimeriano ( nave do Vilgax ) durante os eventos do episódio: Segredos, que causou mau funcionamento no Omnitrix.

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3/3 Agneta Block was a patron of naturalist/artist Maria Sibylla Merian, who recorded this pineapple w/ exciting cockroaches in her Insects of Surinam, 1705.

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The Cimmerian: Man-Eaters of Zamboula will be in stores July 14th!

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. announced today the upcoming release of the newest chapter in their expanding library of Robert E. Howard's The Cimmerian adaptations with writer/artist Gess' THE CIMMERIAN: THE MAN-EATERS OF ZAMBOULA this July.
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Agnes Block died this day in 1704. A horticulturist and painter herself, she made her Vijverhof estate a residence for other botanical artists such as Johanna Helena Herolts-Graff, Maria Sibylla Merian, Maria Moninckx, and Alida Withoos.

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Portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian for a final class project. She was one of the first Europeans to observe insects in their natural habitat and she was a famous natural illustrator.

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(5) ISHTAR

Babylonian goddess Ishtar (Sumerian Inanna) - goddess of love and war, personification of the morning star, and mistress of the mysteries of death and rebirth

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Spring Flowers in a Chinese Vase, 1680
Fiori primaverili in un vaso cinese
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)

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حكمة سومرية

الحق الذي يعطى بالذلة يجلب العار وليس الكرامة

Sumerian wisdom

A right that is given in humiliation brings shame, not honor

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Virginie Augustin handles the art on The Cimmerian: Iron Shadows in the Moon...and she does an incredible job throughout.

Here’s her cover & a look at some of the stunning scenes she illustrates in issue 1.

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This beautiful illustration by German naturalist & explorer Maria Sybilla Merian shows the narcissus, or native wild daffodil. It's also sometimes called the Lent Lily because of the way it blooms then dies away during the period between Ash Wednesday and Easter.

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2/2 A basket of flowers from artist-naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian, celebrating her birthday today.

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Chinese vase, spectacular. Flowers, even more spectacular. As recorded by Maria Sibylla Merian, artist & naturalist. It's her beautiful day.

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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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Maria Sibylla Merian, born 1647, was a pioneering naturalist, botanist, entomologist & artist. She was fascinated how caterpillars metamorphosed into butterflies & moths & her close illustrations were the first to depict the life cycles of insects & their food plants.🦋🐛🌼

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These beautiful drawings were made by pioneering artist and scientist Maria Sibylla Merian, who was born in 1647. Pineapple & examples of five insects, & life cycle of two moths, from 'Merian's Drawings of Surinam Insects'. Watercolour & bodycolour on vellum, 1701–05.

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