Rudolph Zallinger Interior Stair Murals

Rudolph Zallinger was a Twentieth century paleo artist famous for his prehistoric murals and books. Excerpts from his “Age of Reptiles” and “Age of Mammals” murals are reproduced on photographic vinyl with permission from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven, Connecticut. Like artwork elsewhere in the hotel, they tell the history of life on earth in a chronological fashion. Zallinger was painting with the prevailing scientific ideas of his day — that dinosaurs were slow, cold blooded, slow witted and scaly. Today, scientists think the opposite — that dinosaurs were fast, hot blooded, quick thinkers… and covered in feathers.