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I did draw this in your style challenge over on IG! Does it show how much fun I had on this? I've been pretty artblocked recently and I feel like this illustration rekindled my love for this craft. It might be Sibylline's magic - her characters are always so lovable!

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2019-04-05

2/2 Two butterflies. Studied in Amsterdam in 1706 by Maria Sibylla Merian. It was her day.

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2019-04-03

Flowers in a Chinese vase. And some insects. By Maria Sibylla Merian, artist & naturalist, who was born on this day in 1647.

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2019-04-03

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Naturalist & Maria Sibylla Merian was in
"Art & shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another."


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2019-04-02

Happy Bday Maria Sibylla Merian (born 1647)! Celebrate with "De Europischen insecten" (1730), a Dutch translation of Merian's earlier "Der Raupen", with drawn from first-hand observations of insect metamorphosis. In via : https://t.co/xm9wccrUi4

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2019-04-02

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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2019-04-02

Maria Sibylla Merian born 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

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2019-04-02

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!

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2019-04-02

Spiders, ants and hummingbird on a branch of a guava - Maria Sibylla Merian, 1705. (Colored copper engraving from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, Plate XLIII.)

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2019-03-30

MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
Studies for the Libyan Sibyl
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Red chalk on paper, pen and ink, 288 x 194 mm
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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2019-03-28

"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 via ➡️ https://t.co/iFcktbZ4vt

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2019-03-26

Maria Sibylla Merian’s early 18thc natural history illustrations, she was a major contributor to – particularly with her research on the metamorphosis of butterflies

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2019-03-21

We're excited to announce our project for in collaboration with Sibylle Peters and in July 2019. An interactive Live Art experience which poses questions about the relationship between humans and other animals. https://t.co/uDcSsvBbMf

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2019-03-16

This is my !
I really like her art 💙

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2019-03-15

Artiste à découvrir: Sibylart https://t.co/DOl6JY9URg

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2019-03-14

A closer look at the frontispiece in the 1730 Ed of Maria Sibylla Merian's work on the insects of Suriname: just to the left of the cherub's bum, I've only just noticed a miniature version of the book plus the pineapple from one of the plates growing in a pot!

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2019-03-12

Défi de : je choisis Maria Sibylla Merian, l'une des premières femmes illustratrices dans le domaine de l’histoire naturelle. https://t.co/AO6c5tYhSf

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2019-03-09

Artist & naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian traveled the world and was the first to accurately depict insect metamorphosis.
🦋 A rare black butterfly was recently named after her by our scientist Shinichi Nakahara: https://t.co/NYPJPpWOt7

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2019-03-09

Maria Sibylla Merian's observations of insect metamorphosis changed our understanding of the natural world forever, and her illustrations are as beautiful today as they were 300 years ago.

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2019-03-09