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Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 – 13 January 1717) was a German entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator. She was one of the earliest European naturalists to document observations about insects directly.
Maria Sibylla Merian (born April 2, 1647, Frankfurt am Main [Germany]—died January 13, 1717, Amsterdam, Netherlands) was a German-born naturalist and nature artist known for her illustrations of insects and plants.
Maria Sibylla Merian was a botanical artist of exceptional originality and a respected scholar of the natural sciences. She was also a successful businesswoman who paid little attention to the conventions of her day.
Her meticulous depictions of metamorphosis, as well as of the tropical flora and fauna of Suriname, caught the attention of the Royal Academy more than 250 years before the first woman was permitted to join. Portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian from 1679, possibly by Jacob Marrel. Courtesy of Kunstmuseum Basel.
Jan 19, 2016 · 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 was the first woman to journey to the Americas for scientific purposes and one of the leading entomologists of the Enlightenment.
Jan 23, 2017 · Maria Sibylla Merian, a German-born woman living in the Netherlands, had a successful career as an artist, botanist, naturalist and entomologist. Jacob Houbraken, after Georg...
Maria Sibylla Merian. 1647 to 1717. In 1670, she and her husband moved to Nuremberg, where Merian published her first illustrated books. In preparation for a catalogue of European moths, butterflies, and other insects, Merian collected, raised, and observed living insects, rather than working from preserved specimens.
Maria Sibylla Merian was a remarkable entomologist and incredible artist. In her most famous work, Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, 1705 she demonstrates both these skills exceptionally.
Merian was an unconventional figure in the late seventeenth century. Few women could have achieved in art and science what she did at that time. For her period, her work is scientifically accurate and she is considered by modern scholars to be one of the founders of entomology, the study of insects.
