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Insects and Flowers: The Art of Maria Sibylla Merian |  | Authors: David Brafman, Stephanie Schrader
Publisher: Getty Publications
Category: Book
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Seller: totalqualitybooks
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 245100
Media: Paperback
Pages: 52
Number Of Items: 1
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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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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 Divided down the middle August 3, 2009
J. Sikorski (Hoboken!)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
An oblong format or a slightly larger format would have been better for this gift book - the images often fall into the "gutter" between the left and right pages and it ruins the effect. The details of her engravings are beautiful. The printing and the paper are very nice quality. It would have been nice to have small pictures of the entire engravings at the back of the booklet. $10.95 seems overpriced, should be 2 or 3 dollars cheaper for what it is. However, it is lovely and informative and makes you want more.
 Insects and Flowers: The Art of Maria Sibylla Merian July 27, 2009
Susan C. DeLand (Los Angeles, CA USA)
This beautiful little book adds to the discovery of the important contributions of early women artists and scientists. Merian was a courageous individual who broke with tradition and changed the way the scientific community viewed plant and insect development. Merian and her daughters were accomplished artists and documented Merian's observations of insect metamorphosis with gorgeously drawn images. This book focuses on rich details of her watercolors and becomes a piece of art itself.
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