muscinae polytrichum fine art print ernst haeckel vintage butterfly sculptural and faintly theatrical —

sculptural and faintly theatrical — was a perfect subject

Creator: Jaques Fabien Gautier D’Agoty

Leo Gestel experimented with cubism

Abbott Handerson Thayer was an American artist

and printmaker associated with the Vienna Secession and the Art Nouveau style

muscinae polytrichum fine art print ernst haeckel vintage butterfly sculptural and faintly theatrical —Look 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