The small creatures of Jan Augustin van der Goes are drawn so realistically that it seems as if they can crawl off the paper at any moment. By using expensive parchment instead of ordinary paper, the artist transformed these small drawings into independent works of art. These kinds of miniatures were collected and kept in albums, just like stuffed insects in sample cabinets.
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