Women of Art & Science
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: Woman 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. Scientists of her time discounted Merian’s accomplishments, afraid to be associated with “amateurs.” But this exhibition should confirm her own metamorphosis – into one of the most remarkable naturalists of her generation. See her “Pineapple” and “Banana Plant” in our new spring collection. www.dutchtouchart.com.
offered her divine inspiration. “Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters: Woman 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. Scientists of her time discounted Merian’s accomplishments, afraid to be associated with “amateurs.” But this exhibition should confirm her own metamorphosis – into one of the most remarkable naturalists of her generation. See her “Pineapple” and “Banana Plant” in our new spring collection. www.dutchtouchart.com.
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