TY  - BOOK
AU  - Friedewald,Boris
AU  - Pohl,Stephan von
TI  - A butterfly journey: Maria Sibylla Merian, artist and scientist 
SN  - 9783791381497
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Munich, New York
PB  - Prestel
KW  - Merian, Maria Sibylla,
KW  - Women naturalists
KW  - Germany
KW  - Biography
KW  - Natural history illustrators
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-135); Prologue -- The era -- The start of a lifelong journey -- A child's world -- Life like in a cocoon -- The life of a man is as a flower's -- God, science, and art -- Child of the light -- The whole world in one city -- To Suriname! -- So much never-before-seen life -- Journey's end -- Chronology
N2  - The amazing story of the life and work of the renowned botanical artist Maria Sibylla Merian  (1647-1717)  is told alongside her beautiful illustrations of butterflies in this elegant book. A woman ahead of her time, she was an intrepid explorer, naturalist, scholar, as well as a magnificent artist. This book tells Merian's incredible life story alongside colorful reproductions of her engravings and watercolors of the butterflies she encountered during her lifetime in Germany and the Netherlands, and her seminal trip to the Dutch colony of Surinam. The book recounts her monumental expedition, her work as an advocate for the slave laborers of Suriname, and her important studies of the anatomy and life cycle of the butterfly. Author Boris Friedewald employs Merian's favorite insect as a metaphor for the artist's own pioneering evolution from budding entomologist to educator, activist, and artist
ER  -