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he spent years studying the smallest creatures of the sea and believed their overlooked beauty deserved a place on the wall beside any masterpiece — a conviction that helped inspire the organic motifs of Art Nouveau

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The characters and isolated setting have been compared to those in William Shakespeare's The Tempest

portunus art print charles dessalines dorbigny horror he spent years studying theTitle: Portunus Creator: Charles Dessalines D' Orbigny Date: 1849 Place of origin: France Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny was a French botanist and geologist specializing in the Tertiary of France. He was the younger brother of French naturalist and South American explorer, Alcide d'Orbigny. At the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, d'Orbigny identified many of the flowering plant species returned to France from his brother's natural