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| Insects and Flowers: The Art of Maria Sibylla Merian | 
 enlarge | Authors: David Brafman, Stephanie Schrader
Publisher: Getty Publications
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 346693
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 52
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.1 x 4.6 x 0.3
ISBN: 0892369299
Dewey Decimal Number: 751
EAN: 9780892369294
ASIN: 0892369299
Publication Date: September 8, 2008
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Product Description
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 fauna.
Many of the drawings produced by Merian in the South American jungle were later published as hand-colored engravings in her book Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname (1705), which brought her widespread fame. A copy of the second edition is held in the collections of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute.
Insects and Flowers, a delightful gift book that reproduces vivid color details of sixteen plates from the Getty's copy, is a vibrant encapsulation of Merian's book and features an engaging essay on Merian's life and work as well as an insect and plant identification guide. An exhibition of Merian's work will be on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from June 10 through August 31, 2008.
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