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Plantain with Metamorphosis of the Brigh-Line Brown-Eye, after 1679. Creator: Sybilla Merian.

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Plantain with Metamorphosis of the Brigh-Line Brown-Eye, after 1679. In the text of the Caterpillar Book, published in 1679, Maria Sibylla Merian expressed her pleasure in the fact that, thanks to the pretty green caterpillar - which is difficult to discern at first sight - she had the opportunity to include an unremarkable weed such as a plantain in her book. In this respect, her book differs from the seventeenth-century florilegia and their concern with splendour and luxury. Yet despite her matter-of-fact scientific approach, she did not dispense with high artistic standards in her depiction of the plant. Her drawings are always scientific illustrations and artworks in one.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

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HRM26A23_360

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

53.0Mo (3.1Mo) / 32.5cm x 40.9cm / 3834 x 4830 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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