# otd onthisday artquotes nature bornonthisday frankfurt quotes quoteoftheday quotesoftheday quotesaboutlife quotestoliveby quotesdaily lifequotes science stem botd artoftheday art artist artists fineart arthistory illustrator illustration germanart painter painting paintings artistoftheday womenartists womeninscience entomology naturalist adventurer womeninstem sciart dyk bookreviews enthist womensart

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

3 57
2021-04-03

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

23 156
2021-04-03

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

19 127
2021-04-03

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.🦋🐛🌼

44 166
2021-04-03

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.

1 2
2021-04-03


"Art & shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another."

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) in

0 1
2021-04-03

Blue butterflies by Maria Sybilla Merian, born in 1647. She was one of the Northern European women artists who bridged science and art with her meticulously detailed botanical and zoological drawings.

4 9
2021-04-03

Born today in 1647, botanical artist Maria Sibylla Merian took an early interest in She retained indigenous names for the not-yet-described species she found in Suriname and performed controlled laboratory experiments to investigate caterpillars' plant preferences.

41 127
2021-04-03

Born 2 April 1647 (d 1727)
Maria Sibylla German and scientific
Amazing life and woman

22 73
2021-04-02

Maria Sibylla trailblazing artist-scientist of the 17th century, was born in 1647!

Read more about Merian, a woman ahead of her time: https://t.co/EWly1ksXEa

1 3
2021-04-02

Birthday in the park: Maria Sibylla Merian, 1647-17, naturalist and scientific illustrator.....https://t.co/7IDlC0rQUt

0 1
2021-04-02

Pioneering artist and scientist Maria Sibylla Merian was born in 1647.

Dedicated to accurately illustrating the natural world, she was influential in the field of entomology.

Explore Merian’s sophisticated combination of art and science: https://t.co/hLjTKXqrHR

294 1033
2021-04-02

2/2 Pineapple & cockroaches, from The Insects of Suriname, 1719 edition. Brought to you by traveler, naturalist, & artist Maria Sibylla Merian, born OTD in 1647.

6 51
2021-04-02

My portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian for .

Pioneering naturalist, entomologist and - above all, for me - one of the best scientific illustrators who ever lived.

Born in 1647

5 19
2021-04-02

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

9 44
2021-04-02

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

19 77
2021-04-02

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.

37 126
2021-04-02

Maria Sibylla Merian, naturalist and scientific illustrator, was born in 1647. She began to collect insects and raised silkworms as a young girl, and was one of the first naturalists to observe insects directly and document metamorphosis.

82 195
2021-04-02

are free to access for all? e.g.
"SCHMIDT-LOSKE, K. Die Tierwelt der Maria Sibylla Merian: Arten, Beschreibungen und Illustrationen" https://t.co/g5XSRCzXjD
Images thanks to

3 6
2021-04-02