Portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian from 1679 ... popular guides for botanical watercolour painting and embroidery, two art forms available to women at the time. Merian added insects on almost every page ...

The Art Institute of Chicago ... it has been widely believed that insects were just spontaneously born of mud, dirt, or rotting flesh, but that notion has been changed to what we know today, thanks to ...

Florencia Campetella, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, on Maria Sibylla Merian - 17th century entomologist, artist, naturalist and proto-ecologist Maria Sibylla Merian was born in Frankfurt ...

Manga and Leco delve into the captivating tale of Maria Sibylla ... way it blends art with science, providing valuable insights into the metamorphosis of insects and their ecological interactions.