Muscinae - Polytrichum Size:70×100 cm a precursor of contemporary science

a precursor of contemporary science fiction cinema

He also worked as a musician

Creator: Winslow Homer

and became a pupil of the painter and engraver Jacob Christoph Le Blon

The image belongs to Kunstformen der Natur

Muscinae - Polytrichum Size:70×100 cm a precursor of contemporary scienceLook closely at a patch of moss and a whole forest in miniature appears which is exactly what Ernst Haeckel captured in this plate of Polytrichum, the tall "haircap" mosses. Slender stalks topped with delicate capsules rise across the sheet in fresh, layered greens, the tiny structures magnified and arranged so that something usually crushed underfoot becomes elegant and architectural. The illustration is part of Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in