Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Haeckel's Lizards

 
A painting by Ernst Haeckel of lizards
Reason
Another beautiful painting by Ernst Haeckel in high quality
Articles this image appears in
Lizard, Kunstformen der Natur
Creator
Ernst Haeckel, was uploaded by Ragesoss
Nominator
Tomer T
The 79th lithographic plate from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (1904) depicts a variety of lizards, or Lacertilia. In terms of evolutionary relationships, these eight lizards demonstrate the diversity of the Lacertilia suborder, which has been replaced by an array of new suborders and infraorders in recent classifications. Unusual species of chameleon and gonocephalus are at the top; the second row has a flying dragon and a Texas horned lizard; the third row has a flying gecko and a common basilisk; on the bottom row are the aptly named frill-necked lizard and the Thorny Devil. As in many of Haeckel's prints, the colors and spatial composition are more of an aesthetic choice than a reproduction of nature; the lithographer Adolf Glitsch worked directly from Haeckel's sketches rather than from first-hand specimens.
See also the previous nomination.--ragesoss 09:11, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 01:20, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]