References Marrel encouraged Merian to draw and paint.
As the youngest child of Matthäus Merian the Elder she gained a good command of various printing techniques at a young age. Maria Sibylla Merian's father, the Swiss engraver and publisher Matthäus Merian the Elder, married her mother, his second wife, Johanna Sybilla Heyne, in 1646. Maria Sibylla Merian was a Swiss naturalist and artist living and working in the seventeenth century. She recorded and illustrated the life cycles of 186 insect species.
Merian was born on 2 April 1647 in Frankfurt, Germany, into a family of printers and engravers.
She excelled in both endeavors. Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (published in 1705) was the work of an extremely enterprising and independent woman, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717). Maria Sibylla Merian es una de las precursoras más importantes que tiene la entomología moderna en todo el mundo gracias a sus estudios exhaustivos y sus dibujos sobre insectos.
She is now regarded as both a highly gifted artist and an exceptional empirical scientist, one … Maria Sibylla Merian es una de las personalidades más interesantes de la Edad Moderna para los ámbitos de la ciencia y el arte, los cuales fue capaz de congeniar con gran maestría y éxito. Retrato en color de Maria Sybilla Merian.
Her detailed observations and documentation of the metamorphosis of the butterfly make her a significant contributor to entomology.
Maria Sibylla Merian's early life. Maria Sibylla Merian was born in Frankfurt in 1647, the daughter of Matthaeus Merian and Johanna Sibylla Heim. Maria Sibylla Merian. Her evidence documented the nature of metamorphosis and contradicted
Pretty dry, lots of inset pages and captions, but thoroughly informative on Maria Sibylla Merian. When she was three, her father, Matthäus Merian the Elder, passed away.
Maria Sibylla Merian was a 17th Century German entomologist and artist who had profound effects on the idea of studying insects directly, or in situ, including through their metamorphoses.
Maria Sibylla Merianová : Narození: 2. dubna 1647 Frankfurt nad Mohanem: Úmrtí: 13. ledna 1717 (ve věku 69 let) Amsterdam: Manžel(ka) Johann Andreas Graff: Děti: Johanna Helena Herolt Dorothea Maria Graff: Rodiče: Matthäus Merian: Příbuzní: Matthäus Merian a Caspar Merian (sourozenci) Některá data mohou pocházet z datové položky. Maria Sibylla Merian was a woman ahead of her time, a great artist and scientist born in the mid 1600's. The format of this biography reminded me of a school textbook.
The daughter and stepdaughter of artists in Frankfurt, Merian took an interest in insects from an early age, studying them and breeding silkworms at as early an age as thirteen.
Strange Science - Maria Sibylla Merian In a world of natural history generalists, Maria Sibylla Merian, (also known as Maria Sybilla Merian) was a specialist, concentrating almost her entire life on how moths and butterflies metamorphosed from caterpillars. Nueve especies de mariposas y dos de escarabajos, además de seis plantas, fueron bautizados con su nombre. She recorded and illustrated the life cycles of 186 insect species. Her father had taken over the publishing house from Johann Theodor de Bry, the father of his first wife, in 1623. Her father died in 1650, and in 1651 her mother remarried Jacob Marrel, the flower and still life painter. “Maria Sibylla Merian: The First Ecologist?” by Kay Etheridge in V. Molinari and D. Andreolle, Editors, Women and Science: Figures and representations—17th century to present, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne (2011)
Autor: Jacobus Houbraken. Maria Sybilla Merianová. Born in Frankfurt in 1647, in her early twenties, Merian moved to Nuremberg, Germany. Mariner Books, 2007.
Maria Sibylla Merian was a Swiss naturalist and artist living and working in the seventeenth century. Maria Sibylla Merian (2 Apryle 1647 – 13 Januar 1717) wis a German-born naituralist an scienteefic illustrator, a descendant o the Frankfurt brainch o the Swiss Merian faimily.Merian wis ane o the first European naituralists tae observe insects directly. A finales del siglo XX su trabajo fue redescubierto y restaurado.
Maria Sibylla Merian ( b Frankfurt am Main, 2 April 1647; d Amsterdam, 13 Jan 1717).