Art and Natural History: the case of Maria Sibylla Merian

On the study of natural history in the early modern period, see Brian W. Ogilvie, The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe, Chicago, 2008 [UH Online].
On flowers and Dutch horticulture see Andrew Gebhardt, “Early Dutch Horticulture.” in Holland Flowering: How the Dutch Flower Industry Conquered the World, by Andrew Gebhardt, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2014, pp. 45–86. [JSTOR]. On Merian, see: Tomomi Kinukawa, “Science and Whiteness as Property in the Dutch Atlantic World: Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamsensium (1705)” Journal of women’s history, 2012, vol. 24 (3), pp. 91-116. [UH Online]; Tomomi Kinukawa, “Art competes with nature: Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) and the culture of natural history,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin—Madison, 2001. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing [UH Online]; A. C. Montoya and R. Jagersma, “Marketing Maria Sibylla Merian, 1720-1800. Book Auctions, Gender, and Reading Culture in the Dutch Republic”, Book history, 2018, vol. 21 (1), pp. 56-88. [UH Online]; Stephanie Schrader, Nancy Turner, Nancy Yocco, “Naturalism under the Microscope: A Technical Study of Maria Sibylla Merian’s ‘Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam’”, Getty research journal, 2012-01-01, vol. 4 (4), pp. 161-172. [UH Online]. Eric Jorink and Bart Ramakers. “Undivided Territory: ‘Art’ and ‘science’ in the Early Modern Netherlands.” Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek vol. 61 (2011): pp. 6-32. [JSTOR]