Maria Sibylla Merian

Catherine Powell-Warren

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Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
01 September 2025

History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Art & design styles: Baroque; Painting & paintings

Series: Illuminating Women Artists

In 1679, the commentator Joachim von Sandrart described Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) as a painter who had perfected the art of the miniature and of flower painting, a high and deserved honour. Posthumously, however, it is Merian’s status as an entomologist or naturalist that has garnered the most attention; she has not received her due as an artist. This book remedies this situation and assists the reader in understanding Merian’s life as a woman and as an artist in the early modern Dutch Republic. Using Merian’s hundreds of extant watercolours and book illustrations as sources, in combination with her surviving correspondence and with contemporary art treatises, Catherine Powell-Warren recognizes the artistic contributions of Maria Sibylla Merian, and situates them in their socio-cultural and creative context.

This book is the first to consider Merian's art and art-historical significance: her artistic range; her techniques; the rich visual rhetoric she deployed in her works; and her innovations. Merian may not have been a guild member, but she was for all intents and purposes the head of a for-profit business (a 'master'), seeing to the training of her daughters and managing a successful workshop, publishing her works, and networking to secure patrons and resources. Considering the impediments she faced as a woman, her achievements as an artist, as well as in other realms, can be considered noteworthy and perhaps even extraordinary.

By: Catherine Powell-Warren
Imprint: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 190mm, Spine: 22mm
ISBN: 9781848226234
ISBN 10: 1848226233
Series: Illuminating Women Artists
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 01 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Catherine Powell-Warren is an assistant professor of art history at KU Leuven. She completed a post-doctoral research fellowship, sponsored by the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek at Ghent University, focusing on the role of women in the early modern arts of the Low Countries.

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Maria Sibylla Merian

Catherine Powell-Warren

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