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Explorer and artist

Explorer and artist

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

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 geogr...

James Bolton

James Bolton (1735-1799) was an English naturalist, botanist, and antiquarian known for his contributions to the study of plants, particularly fun...

Robert Thornton

Robert Thornton (1768-1837) was an English physician, botanist, and artist known for his significant contributions to the field of botanical illus...

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, born on March 24, 1683, in Castle Hedingham, Essex, England, was an English naturalist, explorer, and artist. He is renowned for his...

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

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, was born on September 7, 1707, in Montbard, Burgundy, France. He pursued his education at the Jesuit Colle...

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 butt...