The Museum of Art is excited to have recently acquired four early eighteenth-century hand-colored engravings by Maria Sibylla Merian (German, 1647–1717). Merian was an expert botanist and naturalist, ...

In June of 1699, a 52-year-old Maria Sibylla Merian departed on a cargo ship for South America’s Suriname with only her 22-year-old daughter Dorothea Maria for company. It was a hundred years ahead of ...

A sweeping show at the Baltimore Museum of Art and an exhibition at Washington’s newly renovated National Museum of Women in the Arts attempt to correct gender imbalances in the art-historical canon.

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 as ...

While historical paintings have captured the essence of war history and diplomacy, the artist has taken on roles in other disciplines beyond the humanities. Botanical illustrators were vital to the ...

The Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) has decided to fund the research vessel Maria Sibylla Merian as a new "Central Research Facility". The new ...

In commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the death of the great Maria Sibylla Merian, the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett and the Städel Museum in Frankfurt will be exhibiting outstanding pieces from ...

was a 17th-century Dutch German botanical and entomological artist. While many of her watercolor depictions of nature are widely appreciated as some of the greatest botanical art in history, her most ...

More than two centuries before initiatives to increase the number of women in STEM fields, Maria Sibylla Merian was a professional artist and naturalist whose close observations and illustrations were ...

A rare butterfly species now bears the name of the 17th century woman who first described the process of metamorphosis. Scientists have only ever seen two Catasticta sibyllae, but DNA sequencing ...

Maria Sibylla Merian (also known as Maria Sybilla Merian) was well into her 50s when she set sail for South America. She spent two years studying wildlife in Surinam, and six plants, nine butterflies ...