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Life Study.(Maria Sibylla Merian and Daughters: Women of Art and Science)(Brief article)
Byline: LESLIE CAMHI editor: Valerie Steiker
Insects were known as "beasts of the devil" when thirteen-year-old Maria Sibylla Merian first sat at her window in Frankfurt am Main, watching silkworms weave their flaxen cocoons. But these "bloodless creatures" offered her divine inspiration. "MARIA SIBYLLA MERIAN & DAUGHTERS: WOMEN OF ART AND SCIENCE," a new show at the Rembrandt House in Amsterdam (traveling to L.A.'s Getty Center in June), pays tribute to this pioneering seventeenth-century entomologist.
Born in Germany in 1647 into a family of artists and publishers, the precociously talented Merian was encouraged by her stepfather, an art dealer and flower painter. At eighteen, she married his apprentice, Johann Andreas Graff, and moved to Nuremberg, where their two daughters were born. Merian taught art to girls, created floral models for embroidery, and gained access to Nuremberg's magnificent private gardens.
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