Insects and Flowers: The Art of Maria Sibylla Merian

by Maria Sibylla Merian, Stephanie Schrader, David Brafman

The artist and scientist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was born in Frankfurt, Germany, into a middle-class family of publishers and artists. With her meticulous depictions of insect metamorphosis, she raised the standards of natural history illustration and helped give birth to the field of entomology. At the age of fifty-two, Merian traveled with her younger daughter to Suriname, a Dutch territory in South America, to paint its exotic flora and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892369299
• ISBN13: 9780892369294
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.6" x 6.1"