Provence rose, watercolour on paper by Maria Sibylla Merian, 1675. Image via Wikimedia commons. In Nuremberg, Merian worked as a flower painter and engraver, publishing three volumes of flower ...

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 ...