The Age of Reptiles

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The Art and Science of Rudolph Zallinger's Great Dinosaur Mural at Yale

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The Age of Reptiles showcases Rudolph Zallinger’s monumental 110-foot fresca secco mural, a majestic depiction of prehistoric life located in Yale Peabody Museum’s Great Hall. Completed in 1947, this masterpiece visually narrates the principal aspects of reptilian evolution and has profoundly shaped public understanding of prehistoric times. The book serves as a comprehensive guide, offering detailed descriptions, vivid full-colour illustrations, and a foldout poster, enriching both educational and artistic appreciation.
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This book appeals to enthusiasts of natural history, art lovers, educators, and visitors of the Yale Peabody Museum wishing to deepen their knowledge and enjoyment of Zallinger’s iconic mural.

Rudolph Zallinger's 110-foot fresca secco painting of "The Age of Reptiles" is one of the largest natural history murals in the world. Completed in 1947, it is an overview of prehistoric life told through the principal features and concepts of "The Age of Reptiles". This guide includes an essay on the mural's place in the history of art.

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Rudolph Zallinger’s 110-foot (33.5-meter) fresco secco painting of The Age of Reptiles is one of the largest natural history murals in the world. Completed in 1947, it offers an overview of prehistoric life told through the principal features and concepts of The Age of Reptiles. The mural has shaped our understanding of the prehistoric world and continues to educate, inform, and inspire the imagination of thousands of visitors who walk through the Yale Peabody Museum’s Great Hall each year, as well as admirers worldwide through countless reproductions in publications and textbooks.

This second edition of the Peabody’s guide to Zallinger’s masterwork is a compilation of earlier material and new information—including Vincent Scully’s classic essay on the mural’s place in the history of art—contributed by the staff and scientists of the Yale Peabody Museum. Filled with full-colour illustrations throughout, the concealed spiral paperback includes updated descriptions and identifying illustrations of the animals and plants depicted in the mural, keyed to a 12-page foldout full-colour poster that is bound into the book.

Distributed for the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

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"The Age of Reptiles is a work of art, by its own nature inevitably transcending science or subverting it and bringing to it its own special glow." – Vincent Scully

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780912532769

Publisher: Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 July 2010

Country: United States

Imprint: Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University

Edition: 2nd Revised edition

Illustration: est 90 color + 12 folded pullout

Contributors:

Edited by Rosemary Volpe

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 159.0mm

Height: 305.0mm

Weight: 454g

Pages: 84

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About the Author

Rudolph Zallinger (1919–1995) was an American-based artist notable for his mural The Age of Reptiles (1947) at Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History and for the popular illustration known as March of Progress (1965), one of the world's most recognizable scientific images.