It was silkworms that first captured 13–year–old Maria Sibylla Merian’s attention. She would later graduate to a wider set of creatures, watching caterpillars, pupae, butterflies, and moths ...

Maria Sibylla Merian's early life Merian was born on 2 April 1647 in Frankfurt, Germany, into a family of printers and engravers. When she was three, her father, Matthäus Merian the Elder, passed away ...

Gain insight into the auction performance of Maria Sibylla Merian . Track the change in total sales value, performance of lots against estimate and compare the artist's sale price according to the ...

Google on Tuesday is noting the 366th anniversary of Maria Sibylla Merian’s birth with the gift of the Google Doodle. So what makes Merian special?

Maria Sibylla Merian’s insect paintings The botanical artist’s “unnatural and distressing” interest in insects led to wonderfully detailed – and radical – illustrations.

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has acquired a rare first edition of an early illustrated natural history book on Suriname that sparked trenchant criticism of its female author. Maria Sibylla Merian ...

Maria Sibylla Merian painted them all -- and at a time when no one knew exactly what many of these creatures were, or what to call them.

German naturalist and scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian has been honoured with a Google doodle today. On what would have been her 366th birthday, the search engine logo has been ...

During the 17th century, when it was generally believed that insects spontaneously generated from dirt, old wool, and rotten meat, Maria Sibylla Merian found them fascinating. Her work as a ...

From an early age, the 17th century, barrier-breaking naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian loved insects—particularly butterflies. She collected every caterpillar she could find, and watched closely ...

Naomi Alderman explores the life and legacy of the first field ecologist – a woman named Maria Merian, who developed the theory of metamorphosis in the 1600s. Show more Maria Merian was born in ...