siphonophorae jellyfish fine art print ernst haeckel katze characterful piece

characterful piece

including African masks that he viewed at Parisian museums and Japanese prints

and plant environmental forms such as flowers and trees

Title: Theatrical poster for the film Vertigo

siphonophorae jellyfish fine art print ernst haeckel katze characterful pieceAmong the strangest creatures Haeckel ever drew, the siphonophores are not single animals at all but floating colonies of specialised parts working as one relatives of the Portuguese man o' war. In this spectacular plate, their chains of bells, floats and trailing filaments stretch and branch across the sheet in delicate pinks, blues and violets, a composition that is as biologically astonishing as it is beautiful. The illustration belongs to