Peromedusae - Jellyfish artnouveau After leaving Seitz

After leaving Seitz

'Forbidden Planet' is considered one of the great science fiction films of the 1950s

and primarily used watercolor to capture impressions of subjects

Creator: Winslow Homer

License: CC0 1

Peromedusae - Jellyfish artnouveau After leaving SeitzThe coronate jellyfish of this plate come from the deeper, darker reaches of the ocean, and Haeckel drew them with a fittingly dramatic touch. Their crowned, grooved bells sit above short, sturdy tentacles, arranged in warm browns, reds and ambers against a shadowy background so that they seem to hang suspended in the deep. There is a richness and weight to these medusae that sets them apart from his paler jellyfish studies. The illustration is part