Discomedusae – Jellyfish 2 Size:50×70 cm License: Public domain

License: Public domain

where he began doing marine paintings

Original from the Metropolitian Museum of Art

armoured bodies giving the composition an almost playful

Title: Maccaroni / Scheurer Freres Logenbach

Discomedusae – Jellyfish 2 Size:50×70 cm License: Public domainA second study of disc jellyfish, and a perfect companion to Haeckel's most famous plate. Here a different cast of medusae floats across the sheet, their bells patterned in warm corals and cool blues, tentacles streaming behind them in graceful, calligraphic lines. Ernst Haeckel's gift was to make these soft, near formless animals look architectural every curve deliberate, every arrangement balanced. The illustration is from Kunstformen der Natur (Art