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