trochilidae hummingbirds fine art print ernst haeckel oceananimals Title: Gran Baile de Calaveras

Title: Gran Baile de Calaveras

A celestial chart of the two hemispheres in the night sky

As the zoologist who named whole branches of the tree of life

study or modern interior

Born the son of the painter Rudolf Wilhelm Koch

trochilidae hummingbirds fine art print ernst haeckel oceananimals Title: Gran Baile de CalaverasFew birds invite a closer look like the hummingbird, and this Haeckel plate is a riot of iridescent colour. Species from across the Americas hover and perch across the sheet, their throats and crowns flashing emerald, ruby and sapphire, their impossibly fine feathers and slender bills captured with loving precision. It is one of the most joyful and collectable images in Haeckel's entire output. The illustration comes from Kunstformen der Natur (Art