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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian

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Fan account of Anna Maria Sibylla Merian, a German-born naturalist and illustrator. 1647-1717 Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 14h

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Plate #23- Musa paradisiaca, Caligo teucer and Cnemidophorus lemniscatus www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

Plate #23- Musa paradisiaca, Caligo teucer and Cnemidophorus lemniscatus

Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Plate of a moth (Eumorpha labruscae) that feeds on grape (Vitis vinifera) www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

Plate of a moth (Eumorpha labruscae) that feeds on grape (Vitis vinifera)

Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Caterpillars, Butterflies and Flower collections.artsmia.org/art/7368

Plate 11
In this beautifully balanced composition, Merian has depicted two Saturniid moths Arsenura armada (Cramer) at top right and bottom left. The larvae are not the early stage of this moth as Merian had thought, but of another species. The plant in the center is the Palisade tree, which can grow sixty-five feet tall and is native to tropical South America. The Saturniid moth has a wide distribution from Mexico to southern Brazil and can vary greatly in appearance.

Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, Plate XX. (Thysania agrippina) www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, Plate XX. (Thysania agrippina)

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Inflorescence of Banana www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

Inflorescence of Banana

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Plate CLXVIII, Restruck on Vellum, from "Histoire des Insects de l'Europe" collections.artsmia.org/art/75573

Plate CLXVIII, Restruck on Vellum, from "Histoire des Insects de l'Europe"

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Plate showing stages of Cocytius antaeus, from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

Plate showing stages of Cocytius antaeus, from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium

Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Granatapfel www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

Granatapfel

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Histoire générale des insects de Suriname et de l'Eouope: Vol I, No. 55 - Poivre d'inde clevelandart.org/art/1955.320

Histoire générale des insects de Suriname et de l'Eouope: Vol I, No. 55 - Poivre d'inde

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Wasserskorpion, Frösche, Kaulquappen und Wasserhyazinthe www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

Wasserskorpion, Frösche, Kaulquappen und Wasserhyazinthe

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname), figure 46 www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname), figure 46

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, Plate XLV www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, Plate XLV

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Plate #23- Musa paradisiaca, Caligo teucer and Cnemidophorus lemniscatus www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

Plate #23- Musa paradisiaca, Caligo teucer and Cnemidophorus lemniscatus

Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Spiders, ants and hummingbird on a branch of a guava www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

Spiders, ants and hummingbird on a branch of a guava

Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A Parrot Tulip, Auriculas, and Red Currants, with a Magpie Moth, its Caterpillar and Pupa www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

A Parrot Tulip, Auriculas, and Red Currants, with a Magpie Moth, its Caterpillar and Pupa

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Rote Lilie www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

Rote Lilie

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Title Page from Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium collections.artsmia.org/art/75544

In Full Bloom: Masterworks of Flower Illustration Botanical illustrators working in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries devoted themselves to the medicinal qualities of plants and sought to render plant structure and function as precisely as they could. Later, European explorers brought specimens back from exotic locales, and artists carefully reproduced them for an audience fascinated by new discoveries. By the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, artists had shifted their emphasis from scientific illustration to the innate beauty of the plant or flower. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts is fortunate to possess an impressive collection of more than 2,000 botanical prints and drawings. This exhibition highlights a selection of floral masterworks made by the leaders of botanical illustration, among them Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Jean Louis Prévost, Priscilla Susan Bury, and Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer. These works are assembled to honor the twenty-fifth anniversary of Art in Bloom, which will grace the museum from May 1 to 4, 2008. This annual event, organized by the Friends of the Institute, brings together floral designers from the region to create arrangements inspired by specific works of art on view at the MIA. Each year the Art in Bloom committee selects a signature image to promote the event, often choosing a work from the museum's permanent collection. Visitors who frequent Art in Bloom will recognize many of the images in this gallery from past Art in Blooms. The most recognizable name in this exhibition is the incomparable Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Often called the "Raphael of Flowers," Redouté set a new standard in the field for his sumptuous renditions of single blooms and entire bouquets. Redouté's paintings, like those of other botanical artists, were translated into engravings and painstakingly finished by hand. These exquisite prints, most executed by French printmakers, came to the MIA's Department of Prints and Drawings from the collection of Dwight and Helen Minnich, who had a special f

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, Plate XIII. (Spondias purpurea) www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, Plate XIII. (Spondias purpurea)

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Pineapple and cockroaches www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

Pineapple and cockroaches

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensiam www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensiam

Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Plate LXXXV, from Erucarum Ortus Alimentum et Paradoxa Metamorphosis (1679-1717) www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

Plate LXXXV, from Erucarum Ortus Alimentum et Paradoxa Metamorphosis (1679-1717)

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, Plate XLVIII www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, Plate XLVIII

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A Green Plover www.harvardartmuseums.org/collectio…

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer

Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium

Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Spectacled Caiman (Caiman crocodilus) and a False Coral Snake (Anilius scytale) www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

Spectacled Caiman (Caiman crocodilus) and a False Coral Snake (Anilius scytale)

Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Musa paradisiaca www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

Musa paradisiaca

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Butterflies, Caterpillars and Plant collections.artsmia.org/art/75555

Plate 33

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Musa paradisiaca www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

Musa paradisiaca

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Caterpillars, Butterflies and Flower collections.artsmia.org/art/7368

Plate 11
In this beautifully balanced composition, Merian has depicted two Saturniid moths Arsenura armada (Cramer) at top right and bottom left. The larvae are not the early stage of this moth as Merian had thought, but of another species. The plant in the center is the Palisade tree, which can grow sixty-five feet tall and is native to tropical South America. The Saturniid moth has a wide distribution from Mexico to southern Brazil and can vary greatly in appearance.

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, Plate XX. (Thysania agrippina) www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, Plate XX. (Thysania agrippina)

Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Metamorphosis of a Butterfly www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-me…

Metamorphosis of a Butterfly