Peromedusae - Jellyfish paperart arranging them so that the

arranging them so that the plate reads as both an accurate study and a dazzling decorative composition — exactly the blend that made his work so influential on Art Nouveau

It narrates the struggle between two groups of cousins in the Kurukshetra War and the fates of the Kaurava and the Pāṇḍava princes and their successors

was born in Niigata-ken in 1880

and this plate gathers a constellation of them in deep reds

Bluemner came to the United States to escape Germany's conservatism

Peromedusae - Jellyfish paperart arranging them so that theThe coronate jellyfish of this plate come from the deeper, darker reaches of the ocean, and Haeckel drew them with a fittingly dramatic touch. Their crowned, grooved bells sit above short, sturdy tentacles, arranged in warm browns, reds and ambers against a shadowy background so that they seem to hang suspended in the deep. There is a richness and weight to these medusae that sets them apart from his paler jellyfish studies. The illustration is part