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Cronicles of Cartography

Cronicles of Cartography

With our new collection named Atlas Dybdahlum you are invited to immerse yourself in a unique atlas that combines the allure of old maps and photos...

Explorer and artist

Early naturalist explorers had to be great artists because art served as a powerful tool for documenting and conveying their scientific discoveries...

A short text on why butterflies always has had such an artistic interest

Butterflies have long captivated the human imagination and sparked artistic interest for several reasons. Their delicate beauty, vibrant colors, gr...

The link between Japan and Scandinavia

The design connection between Japan and Scandinavia is a fascinating intersection that has influenced both regions in various ways. Although geogra...

James Bolton

Bolton's passion for botany and natural history led him to become a self-taught expert in the field. He extensively explored the local countryside,...

Robert Thornton

Robert Thornton's most renowned artistic endeavor was "The Temple of Flora," a lavish botanical book published in parts between 1799 and 1807. The ...

John James Audubon

John James Audubon, born on April 26, 1785, in Les Cayes, Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and a...

Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Pierre-Joseph Redouté, born on July 10, 1759, in Saint-Hubert, Belgium, was a renowned French botanical artist. He is widely regarded as one of th...

Mark Catesby

Mark Catesby's illustrations were primarily created using watercolors, a medium that allowed him to capture the vibrancy and subtleties of the natu...

Ernst Haeckel

Ernst Haeckel, born on February 16, 1834, in Potsdam, Prussia (now Germany), was a renowned German biologist, philosopher, and artist. He is best ...

Flowers in Art - About the collection

We fell in love with the French artist Maurice Pillard Verneuil's (1869-1942) exquisite botanical drawings from "La Plante et ses Applications Orne...

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Buffon's most notable work is "Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière" (Natural History, General and Particular), a monumental project he wor...

Maria Sibylla Merian

It’s one of nature’s most marvelous life cycles – the majestic way an insect queen evolves from a small egg to larva to pupa to a flight-ready but...