Comingio Merculiano

Cephalopods from the Gulf of Naples , illustration for Giuseppe Jatta: I Cefalopodi viventi nel Golfo di Napoli (1896)

Comingio Merculiano (born August 29, 1845 in Naples ; † 1915 there ) was an Italian draftsman and illustrator .

Comingio Merculiano studied at the Accademia di belle arti di Napoli . From 1885 he worked as an illustrator at the Naples Zoological Station with Anton Dohrn . There he made the illustrations for Giuseppe Jatta's book I Cefalopodi viventi nel Golfo di Napoli (1896) , for example . His illustration of sea ​​anemones appeared in Richard Lydekker's The Royal Natural History in about 1893 and in Brehm's Animal Life in 1890 .

He also drew views of the Gulf of Naples .

His brother was the sculptor Giacomo Merculiano (1859-1935).

literature

• Les poissons. Illustrations scientifiques, dessins naturalistes & fantaisies. Musée océanographique Monaco, juin-octobre 1998 . Monaco 1998, p. 62.

Web links

Commons : Comingio Merculiano  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Comingio Merculiano . In: Database of Scientific Illustrators, 1450–1950 , University of Stuttgart
• Comingio Merculiano . In: galleriarecta.it
• Antje Starke: sea ​​on paper. Artful biology at the Naples Zoological Station . In: Leuphana University of Lüneburg from January 23, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Royal Natural History. F. Warne, London 1893, p. 501 ( digitized version ).
2. ^ Brehms animal life. General customer of the animal kingdom . 3rd edition, Volume 10, 1893, p. 642 ( digitized version ).