Muscinae - Polytrichum Size:70×100 cm 9 47 XL 78

9 47 XL 78

some of whom were his students

He also worked as a musician

Creator: Winslow Homer

a precursor of contemporary science fiction cinema

Muscinae - Polytrichum Size:70×100 cm 9 47 XL 78Look 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