Maria Sibylla Merian: The St. Petersburg Watercolours
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Издатель | | Sterling/Chapelle |
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Содержание:
Возникновение биосферы, Размерность пространства в микромире, Асимметрия и возникновение жизни, Динамическая нестабильность воды, Биогенная нефть, Дно океана, Феномен близнецов, Миграции индоевропейцев, Призвание варягов, Преодоление язычества, Страх, Три кризиса Розанова, Физика духа
Описание:
Book DescriptionThis gorgeous collection of flora and fauna illustrations by Germany?s famous woman artist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) has been mostly hidden from the public eye?until now. During a trip to Amsterdam in 1719, Peter the Great encountered a collection of watercolors by a little-known female artist. The tsar was entranced by the opulent color, exquisite detail and refined lines of the collection?pictures of flowers, plants, sea creatures and insects, each depicted with remarkable scientific accuracy. Peter brought the watercolors back to St. Petersburg and with them opened Russia?s first museum. After Peter?s death, the paintings were given to the Academy of Sciences, where they have resided ever since. These remarkable images, known as the St. Petersburg Watercolors, are now available to the public in this beautiful book. This volume features fifty full-page images presented in double-page spreads, with descriptions of the flora and...Похожие книги