Re: Zallinger Murals

["T. Michael Keesey" <keesey@gmail.com>]

On 5/20/07, Danvarner@aol.com <Danvarner@aol.com> wrote:
> Here's an interesting article  about Rudolf Zallinger's murals at Yale. You
> have to give credit to the Peabody  Museum. A lot of institutions would have
> removed anything out of date. I  understand that Charles R. Knight was initially
> offered the project, but the  Peabody couldn't meet his price so they did it
> "in-house" with Zallinger. I wish  I had a nickel for every leaf Zallinger
> painted. DV

Another bit of trivia, something I noticed when I saw it in person for
the first time last summer: When reproduced in books, the mural is
generally shown with time proceeding from left to right, with the
Paleozoic to the left and the Cretaceous to the right. However, this
is flipped: in the actual mural, time proceeds from right to left.

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Mike Keesey