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A 17th-Century Woman Artist’s Butterfly Journey
- Mz 11y agoThe drawings are beautiful. Her approach to the subject was apparently game changing. Prior to her work, butterflies were seen as demonic and thier reproductive process so mysterious that the explanation of how they reproduced boiled down to magic.
- kwhitefoot 11y agoThose pictures are beautiful. Thank you, to benbreen, Boris Friedewald, and of course to Maria Sybylla Merian (oh and hypoallergic.com too).