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 ...

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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 ...

Another artist named Maria Sibylla Merian went to Dutch Suriname, where she studied butterflies and plants on the Dutch sugar plantations. Both depict landscapes and the natural world but don’t ...

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 ...

Maria Sibylla Merian, a name that resonates with significance in the world of entomology, was an artist and naturalist whose work greatly influenced the study of insects. Living during a time when ...

Maria Balshaw, the director of the Tate, discusses the measures that she and her colleagues in the museum sector are taking in order to leave a lighter footprint on the planet. The Art Newspaper ...

and even a Maria Tallchief Barbie. But her legacy rests on what she brought to the art form in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s — a series of revelations about what ballet could be and what a ...

Among the ceremony's accolades are the coveted "big four" categories – album of the year, song of the year, record of the year and best new artist. The best new artist award made its first ...