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Maria Sibylla Merian

1647–1717 · German · Natural history illustration

Maria Sibylla Merian was a German-born naturalist and illustrator who in 1699 sailed at fifty-two to the Dutch colony of Surinam to study its insects and plants. The book that followed, with its life cycles of butterflies and moths shown on their host plants, was a foundational work for both entomology and scientific illustration.

Best known for: Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, insect life cycles
Impression, Sunrise Art Print by Claude Monet - hero image for the Impressionism collection

Impressionism 39

Light, weather and modern Paris on canvas.

The Starry Night Art Print by Vincent van Gogh - hero image for the Post-Impressionism collection

Post-Impressionism 26

Bold colour and personal vision past the Impressionists.

The Great Wave off Kanagawa Art Print by Katsushika Hokusai - hero image for the Japanese Woodblock collection

Japanese Woodblock 23

Mount Fuji, the Great Wave and Edo street life.

The Birth of Venus Art Print by Sandro Botticelli - hero image for the Renaissance collection

Renaissance 34

Italian and northern masters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

American Flamingo (Plate 431) Art Print by John James Audubon - hero image for the Botanical & Natural History collection

Botanical & Natural History 25

Plates of birds, flowers and insects drawn from life.

Ophelia Art Print by John Everett Millais - hero image for the Pre-Raphaelite & Symbolist collection

Pre-Raphaelite & Symbolist 20

Late Victorian myth, dream and gothic figure.

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Art Nouveau Posters 14

Mucha and Toulouse-Lautrec in the great Paris poster era.

Girl with a Pearl Earring Art Print by Johannes Vermeer - hero image for the Dutch Golden Age collection

Dutch Golden Age 15

Vermeer, Rembrandt and the quiet light of 1600s Holland.

Hemisphaerium Stellatum Boreale Antiquum (Northern Constellations) Art Print by Andreas Cellarius - hero image for the Maps & Celestial Charts collection

Maps & Celestial Charts 4

Engraved world maps and star atlases from the age of exploration.

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog Art Print by Caspar David Friedrich - hero image for the Romanticism collection

Romanticism 23

Storms, ruins and sublime landscapes from Turner, Friedrich and Goya.

Travelers Among Mountains and Streams Art Print by Fan Kuan - hero image for the Chinese Landscape collection

Chinese Landscape 4

Song, Yuan and Ming masters of the mountain-and-water tradition.

The Court of Gayumars Art Print by Sultan Muhammad - hero image for the Persian, Mughal & Indian collection

Persian, Mughal & Indian 2

Miniatures and album leaves from the great Eastern courts.

Composition with Red Blue and Yellow Art Print by Piet Mondrian - hero image for the Modernism & Abstraction collection

Modernism & Abstraction 4

Hilma af Klint, Mondrian, Kandinsky, Malevich and the abstract pioneers.
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