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At the young age of thirteen, Maria Sibylla Merian had already
begun her systematic entomological research with a study of the
silk worm, a description of which opens her second book, entitled
Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandlung ...(The Caterpillar's Wondrous
Metamorphosi...). Motivated by reports on the flora and fauna of
Surinam published by missionaries of the pietistic Labadist church,
which she joined in 1685, she undertook a perilous journey to the
tropics. Following her return home, she had her insect studies -
life-sized drawings of insects on parchment - engraved in copper,
adding descriptions of each species and its habitat. Four editions
of these large-format engravings were published between 1719 and
1771. The epochal accomplishment of the painter, engraver and
naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian is to be found in the artistic
perfection of her presentation of the results of meticulous
entomological research, decades before the appearance of Linne's
Systema Naturae in 1735.Following the seminal studies by Elisabeth
Rucker, this publication is the first comprehensive monograph on
the work of Maria Sibylla Merian. It focuses not only on her
artistic and scientific achievements but on her role as a publisher
and entrepreneur as well. New material on the life and work of this
extraordinary artist is provided in the form of unpublished letters
and 40 previously unpublished water-colors from her St. Petersburg
sketchbook.
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