15-11-2021
Photo: winning illustration detail
A carnivorous dinosaur is the theme that brought the Lanzendorf - National Geographic Award, in the best Scientific Illustration category, to Portugal for the first time, the most important distinction in the area.
The winning artist is Victor Carvalho, student in the Master in Paleontology Program at the NOVA School of Science and Technology and the University of Évora. Master in Drawing by the Institute of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, the artist and paleontology student has been working with the reconstitution of extinct animals for over a decade, during which he has collaborated with researchers at the Museum of Natural History of Rio de Janeiro and the Lourinhã Museum.
“I was like many of the children of the 90s, who were dazzled by watching Jurassic Park from the seats in movie theaters. However, the years passed and the passion remained”, says Victor Carvalho, who participated for the first time in this competition.
The awarded work is entitled "Baryonyx revisited" and is the result of a year of work together with NOVA researchers, Octávio Mateus and Darío Estraviz. The title refers to a revisiting of the morphology and anatomy of the Baryonyx walkeri species, known to science since the late 1980s. The work also alludes to the recent revisitation made by NOVA researchers to the outcrop where it was possible to recover new fossils of the Portuguese representative of this species.
The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, the most important paleontology society in the world, in partnership with National Geographic, annually distinguishes the best paleoart.
Paleoart is the art of paleontological themes based on scientific data, it is a branch of scientific design that aims to produce credible interpretations of prehistoric life and the organisms that are part of it, through knowledge of different areas such as anatomy, ecology and ethology, beyond the artistic domain.
The award will be presented during the 2022 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology congress in Toronto, Canada.
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