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Birth
1647 (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Death
1717 (Amsterdam, Holland)
Lived/Active
Germany
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nature engravings-botany and zoology
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Born to a famous Swiss publisher, Matthaqus Merian the Elder, in Frankfurt, Germany, Maria Sibylla Merian was a talented and
well-traveled artist, who became for her engravings of
the natural world. Her works were purchased and displayed by
Peter The Great, Tzar of Russia.
Her father died when she was three years old, and her mother married
Jacob Marell, a Flemish flower painter who became one of Maria Merian's
first teachers. She had shown talent for drawing and pain (showing 500 of 2750 characters). |
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