The popularity and study of the life of Maria Sibylla Merian, an artist, botanist, naturalist, and entomologist has reignited in the last 40 years in criti...
'Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conque...
Matthäus Merian starší (22. září 1593, Basilej – 19. června 1650, Bad Schwalbach) byl švýcarský rytec a nakladatel působící především ve Frankfurtu nad Mohanem.
In 1660, at the age of thirteen, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) began her study of butterfly metamorphosis—years before any other scientist published an accurate description of the process.