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By: Book review – Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs & More | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 10:39:26 +0000

[…] book furthermore corrects common misconceptions and outdated ideas. Vintage palaeoart depicts the long-necked plesiosaurs as having extremely flexible necks that were held aloft above […]

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By: Book review – Paleontology: An Illustrated History | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 21 Feb 2022 12:49:23 +0000

[…] history such as Rudwick’s two-volume magnum opus nor as lavish an affair as Taschen’s Paleoart. But one might justifiably draw comparisons to Rudwick’s Scenes from Deep Time or art […]

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By: Book review – Visions of Lost Worlds: The Paleoart of Jay Matternes | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 20:30:20 +0000

[…] my knowledge, Matternes’s paintings have not been covered elsewhere before (Lescaze’s Paleoart did not include it), and Carrano & Johnson have delivered a top-notch production. Their call to […]

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By: Book review – Visions of Lost Worlds: The Paleoart of Jay Matternes | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:22:43 +0000

[…] my knowledge, Matternes’s paintings have not been covered elsewhere before (Lescaze’s Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past, 1830-1980 did not include it), and Carrano & Johnson have delivered a top-notch production. Their call to […]

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By: Book review – The Art of Animal Anatomy: All Life is Here, Dissected and Depicted | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 21 Dec 2018 13:27:16 +0000

[…] Another important development was the acceptance of deep time and a more accurate determination of the Earth’s age, and with it the rise of palaeontology as a discipline, resulting in artwork depicting fossils. Some early drawings of fossils and skeletal reconstructions from the hands of Mary Anning and Richard Owen are shown, and mention is made of the Crystal Palace dinosaurs, but there is no space here to explore the discipline of palaeoart (for that, see Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past, 1830-1980). […]

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By: Book review – The Palaeoartist’s Handbook: Recreating Prehistoric Animals in Art | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 20 Sep 2018 16:20:29 +0000

[…] 1900s that includes luminaries such as Charles Knight and Zdeněk Burian (see also Lescaze’s Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past, 1830-1980 and Rudwick’s Scenes from Deep Time: Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric […]

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By: Book review – Dinosaur Art 2: The Cutting Edge of Paleoart | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 20 Dec 2017 16:26:01 +0000

[…] her conclusion to the recently reviewed Paleoart, Zoë Lescaze bemoaned the lack of romance in modern palaeoart due to scientific advances and the […]

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By: Book review – Patrons of Paleontology: How Government Support Shaped a Science | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 07 Dec 2017 13:42:16 +0000

[…] is not even mentioned in the book. And what about Russia? Zoë Lescaze’s recent book Paleoart highlighted the fantastical gems of palaeontological artwork housed in the Orlov Museum of […]

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