ARTHIST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Rembrandt, Ukiyo-E, Hokusai
Name: Plate 9 from the Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam
By: Merian
Year:1719
• She was both an artist and a scientific researcher, an unusual combination in 16th and 17th
centuries
• She used her artistic skills to record and disseminate many botanical and entomological (insects)
studies
• This print was included in a 72 hand-oloured prits alled, The Metaorphosis of the Isets
of “uria
• Shading: decrease the intensity of colours in order to suggest varying degrees of light falling on
an object – important when you want to convey volume
Name: Self Portrait in Cap with open-mouth
By: Rembrandt van Rijn when he was 24 yrs old
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