In the 17th century, it has been widely believed that insects were just spontaneously born of mud, dirt, or rotting flesh, but that notion has been changed to what we know today, thanks to Maria ...

In the 1600s the Netherlands established one of the world’s first art markets – but it couldn’t have happened without the ...

Maria was an artist, a scientific illustrator and an explorer 300 hundred years ago. Frangipani plant with Red Cracker Butterfly, 1701 - 3 The Curious Madam Merian, as she was known, was a pioneer ...

What was Dutch art about before slavery and what was ... Another artist named Maria Sibylla Merian went to Dutch Suriname, where she studied butterflies and plants on the Dutch sugar plantations.

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Duke University Press have just published a new volume on Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art by the Clark Art Institute ...

and Maria Sibylla Merian and therefore inescapably within slavery’s grasp. I missed this news story at the end of last year that the Krannert Art Museum in Illinois acquired Willem Bartsius's Samson ...

The book on which she collaborated with two fellow feminists drew global attention to the repression of women under their ...

Melody Figments is a body of work by Maria Finkelmeier that translates musical gesture into breathing, 3D visual webs.

Going into Sunday’s 2025 Grammy Awards, Beyoncé led the way with 11 nominations — and she left with the top prize of the night, album of the year for Cowboy Carter.