Curriculum Materials: Amazing Animals in
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Maria Sibylla
Merian |
Moths, Caterpillar, and Foliage
Background ~ About this Object ~ Style ~ Technique ~ About the Artist ~ Suggested Questions: Grades K-3 ~ Suggested Questions: Grades 4-6
Theme
Combining scientific investigation with artistic concerns, Merian conveys with extraordinary delicacy the nature and beauty of a moth in various stages of development, as well as the plants upon which the insect thrived. Her published illustrations&emdash; of which this is an example&emdash;were based on careful studies of nature and provided new information to the sciences of botany and zoology.
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