To mark International Women’s Day on March 8, we celebrate the stories of three creative women from history in an extract ...

Courtesy of Kunstmuseum Basel. Maria Sibylla Merian's early life Merian was born on 2 April 1647 in Frankfurt, Germany, into a family of printers and engravers. When she was three, her father, ...

Florencia Campetella, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, on Maria Sibylla Merian - 17th century entomologist, artist, naturalist and proto-ecologist Maria Sibylla Merian was born in Frankfurt ...

Manga and Leco delve into the captivating tale of Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 - 1717), a pioneering German illustrator and naturalist known for her adventurous spirit. Merian broke through the ...