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Maria Merian's Metamorphosis

7/16/2022

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Maria Sibylla Merian was born in 1647 – a time when women were not expected to thrive as artists or scientists but she defied all odds to become both and in the process she illuminated the process of metamorphosis.

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Further Reading

Natalie Zemon Davis, Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth Century Lives, Harvard University Press, (1995).

Elizabeth Alice Honig, “The Art of Being ‘Artistic:’ Dutch Women’s Creative Practices in the Seventeenth Century,” Women’s Art Journal 22:2 (2001): 31-9.

Elisabeth Rucker, “The Life and Personality of Merian Sibylla Merian” in Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium. London: Pion Limited, 1980.

Kim Todd, Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis Harourt, (2007).

Sharon Valiant, “Maria Sibylla Merian: Recovering an Eighteenth-Century Legend,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 26:3 (1993): 467-79.

​Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)
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