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Dimensions 345 x 485 cm

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Beautiful botanical prints from Marya Sibylla Merian collection

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In each one of these prints is contained the delicacy, elegance and color of small masterpieces that Nature offers. The illustrations are taken from the seventeenth-century herbarium of Maria Sibylla Merian, kept at the Bibliotheca Antiqua of Aboca Museum in Sansepolcro.

Available botanical subjects:

- Erythrina

- Pomegranate

- Passionflower

- Rose

The history of botany, with the disclosure of its rarest and most precious aspects, has always been part of the project of Aboca. Printed in Amsterdam in the second decade of the 18th century, the Erucarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis contains one of the best known studies on botany and entomology from the Enlightenment. The fame of the work is due to the extraordinary iconographic apparatus created by Maria Sybilla Merian, fine painter and intrepid naturalist, capable of subverting the conventions of a rigidly masculine world as that of the Dutch scientific community. Convinced that every species should be portrayed in its natural environment, she did not hesitate to undertake an adventurous expedition through the forests of Suriname in order to observe the metamorphosis of the caterpillars that populated that region.

Botanical print Maria Sibylla Merian