Melethallia - Algae Size:30×40 cm blown glass

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He was among a growing fraction of scientist who believed that there was life in the deep sea

Anna Karenina in a low-cut dress that leaves her shoulders bare and a fur stole

sea turtles glide across this Haeckel plate with their shells rendered in intricate mosaics of brown

established in 1903 by the graphic designer and painter Koloman Moser

Melethallia - Algae Size:30×40 cm blown glassThis plate turns the humblest of organisms colonial algae into a study of pure, repeating pattern. Ernst Haeckel arranged these microscopic plant forms into rosettes, networks and clusters of soft green and gold, the kind of natural geometry that feels almost like wallpaper or textile design rather than a page from a science book. It is one of the 100 lithographs in Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), Haeckel's hugely influential series. A