He chose the name because he liked Ernst Haeckel’s botanical illustrations ... Bridges explains that he first came across a ...

Yet no conceptual touchstone would be more compelling to more people than the dream of racial perfectibility advanced by zoologist Ernst Haeckel (best known to us for his drawings of sea anemones, so ...

One of Darwin's contemporaries, German biologist Ernst Haeckel ... In fact, this isn't strictly true, and the drawings Haeckel made exaggerated the embryonic similarities between species.

A fascinating book from the 19th century was “Art Forms in Nature” by Ernst Haeckel, reveling in the organic symmetry in living things. I was reminded of this recently on my almost daily walk at ...

Walsh: Art, as I argue in these pages, is the gift from God, the sole true medium of truth. The 19th-century German biologist Ernst Haeckel famously declared that “ontogeny recapitulates ...

For me, art and biological life and technology are ... Our futures don’t spontaneously emerge, like Ernst Haeckel’s magic germs, fully clothed. I can find no evidence that those who do only ...

They discussed ongoing learning opportunities; building something from nothing; architecture comradery; construction; appreciation for man-made and natural objects; technical drawings; when ...

In The Descent of Man, Darwin called him “our great philosopher”; Darwin cited him in the book seven times, while citing the proto-Nazi German biologist Ernst Haeckel eleven times. The huge ...

The 20th Century Art Evening Sale will take place on 23 March 2021, a key auction within Christie’s series of livestream sales that will see collectors convene in London via our livestreamed salerooms ...

Tamara de Lempicka’s first major U.S. survey invokes her as a trailblazing techno-feminist who borrowed freely from art history. But it also buries her erratic second act. By Walker Mimms ...

‘The role of the national galleries in Sweden and in other countries is twofold: first of all to tell a story about the history of art history – and that means focusing on foreign art, if you like – ...