Re: dinosaur murals

[ptnorton <ptnorton@suscom-maine.net>]

One of Yale's WebPages claims that Zallinger's "Age of Reptiles" (in the 
Peabody Museum of Natural History) is "the largest dinosaur painting in the 
world" (http://www.yale.edu/onhsa/science/science_public.html), while 
another Yale webpage claims that "the mural is one of  the largest in the 
world:" (http://www.yale.edu/peabody/explore/reptiles.html).

Both these statements can be, and probably are, true. Keep in mind that the 
largest dinosaur painting in the world is not necessarily the largest mural 
in the world. For example, here in Portland, Maine, we have a 1000 foot long 
mural of whales painted on the exterior of a wharf facility 
(http://www.wylandfoundation.org/whalingWalls/whalingWalls_detail.cfm?WhalingWalls_number=36). 
This clearly qualifies as a much larger mural than Zallinger's, but it does 
not qualify as a dinosaur painting (even though it has a few small seagulls 
in it :)

These confusing references to the Peabody's mural as "the largest dinosaur 
painting" versus only "one of the largest murals" may have led to your 
question.  Clearly, there are murals larger than Zallinger's, but my bet is 
that Zallinger's work is still the largest *dinosaur* mural (or dinosaur 
painting, if you will) in the world.

PTJN
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Tess" <bobtess@dinoart.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 4:37 PM
Subject: dinosaur murals


> Does anyone know what might be the largest dinosaur mural ever done?   And 
> where it is?  Has someone done a bigger one than the (I think)  110' x 10' 
> Zallinger "Age of Reptiles?  Contenders?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tess