Naar aanleiding van mijn bezoek aan Wiuwert kreeg ik meteen dit boek te lezen van mijn moeder: verder lezen over Maria Sybilla Merian!

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A bit spooky but in general very interesting: Wiuwert.

Home of the Labadist community, counting amongst their members Maria Sybilla Merian, Anna Maria van Schuurman and the sisters Van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk (on whose estate the group was able to stay).

Also home of some very well preserved bodies, kept in the burial chamber of a very well appointed small church.

Go visit! 👍

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[20:37] Dichter Tsead Bruinja speelt in film ‘Metamorfose’ naast Pierre Bokma

Regisseur Pim Zwier is maandagavond te gast in filmhuis Slieker, waar hij zal vertellen over ‘Metamorfose’. Voor dit project kweekte hij in eigen huis rupsen tot vlinders, net als Maria Sybilla Merian, over wie de film gaat. Dichter Tsead Bruinja speelt ook een rol.

https://lc.nl/cultuur/Dichter-Tsead-Bruinja-speelt-in-film-%E2%80%98Metamorfose%E2%80%99-naast-Pierre-Bokma-45927606.html

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"Rose with Metamorphosis of Leaf Roller and a Glued Beetle Larva," Maria Sibylla Merion, after 1679.

Merian (1647-1717) was a German entomologist, naturalist, and scientific illustrator. She was one of the first European naturalists to document insect life from direct observation. The daughter of a Swiss engraver and publisher, she collected insects as a child and published her first collection of illustrations in 1675. She published a two-volume work on caterpillars, from which this image is taken. And that's an actual dried beetle larva glued to the main flower; she did that with a number of her illustrations but most have fallen off long ago.

She traveled to South American and observed insect life there, also publishing her findings to great acclaim.

Her direct observations of the metamorphic process were an enormous influence on the scientific world; David Attenborough calls her one of the most significant contributors to the field of entomology.

From the Städel Museum, Frankfurt.

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