Musée No:325.101 Size:A2 - 594mm x 420mm The Naturalist's Miscellany or Coloured

The Naturalist's Miscellany or Coloured figures of Natural Objects

He believed that architecture should reflect history and traditions

Maria Sibylla Merian was a German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator

He was born in Cluny

for example one of his most famous works - Symphony in White

Musée No:325.101 Size:A2 - 594mm x 420mm The Naturalist's Miscellany or ColouredDutch Natural History Watercolour Illustration Artist: Anselmus Botius de Boodt Date: 1596 1610 Anselmus Botius de Boodt was born in Bruges in 1550. He was a Flemish humanist, mineralogist, physician and naturalist and a gifted draughtsman. De Boodt joined the Emperors court in Bohemia as a medical doctor in 1588, and in 1604 he was put in charge of preparing the Historia Naturalis, an exquisitely illustrated encyclopaedia of the worlds then known