Filicinae Palm Tree by Ernst Haeckel Gallery Wall Nicole Marra - Fancy Ladies 1 As a botanical painting

As a botanical painting

each shape a note

and neighborhoods rendered with a warmth that shifts the familiar map format into decorative territory

impossibly intricate

Filicinae Palm Tree by Ernst Haeckel Gallery Wall Nicole Marra - Fancy Ladies 1 As a botanical paintingHaeckel's study of Filicinae the fern family displays the same compulsive visual order that defines his broader scientific illustration practice. Fronds radiate with near mathematical regularity, each leaflet rendered with meticulous precision; the whole composition held in a formal symmetry that is equal parts taxonomy and ornament. First published in his landmark Kunstformen der Natur series, the work helped define how the natural world would be