The amazing story of the life and work of the renowned botanical artist Maria Sibylla Merian is told alongside her beautiful illustrations of butterflies in this charming and elegant book.

This glorious, authoritative, and unprecedented retrospective of Doré’s prints and paintings, drawn from an oeuvre of more than 10,000 works, comes in a spectacularly ornate package that reflects the artist’s own dramatic style.

Now available again in an expanded edition and featuring a variety of work from artists both well-known and under the radar, this book reveals how women artists reclaimed control of the feminine image in everything from painting, to video, to performance art.