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[FR] Parmi les sculptures ornant l’ancien bâtiment des Facultés de Médecine et des Sciences (1893) à Saragosse (Espagne) se trouve un ptérosaure. Il s’agit d’une oeuvre de D. Lasuén, inspirée par une reconstitution méconnue de ces animaux, bien que l’une des plus anciennes, dessinée et gravée par T. Susemihl plus d’un demi-siècle plus tôt. Malgré sa singularité, cette sculpture a été simplement considérée comme une symbolisation de la zoologie. Il est suggéré qu’elle est, en fait, polysémique. Non seulement elle représenterait le règne animal mais, en outre, il s’agirait d’un ersatz de dragon et, par là même, une allusion à la Maison d’Aragon à travers son saint patron sauroctone, Saint Georges.
[EN] Among the sculptures adorning the former building of the Faculties of Medicine and Sciences (1893) in Saragossa (Spain) is one that represents a pterosaur. It is a work by D. Lasuén based on one of the first, but little known, restorations of these animals, drawn and engraved by T. Susemihl more than half a century before. Although it seems out of place, this sculpture was simply seen as a symbol of zoology. We suggest that it may have several significations. Besides embodying the animal kingdom, it may have been a surrogate of the dragon and thus a reference to the House of Aragon through its dragon-slaying holy patron, Saint George.
F. Knoll and R. López-Antoñanzas are supported by the research project CGL2009-12143 and CGL2008-05813-CO2-01, respectively.
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Lasuén, Pterosauria, [SHS.MUSEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Cultural heritage and museology, Spain, Susemihl, History of science, Aragón
Lasuén, Pterosauria, [SHS.MUSEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Cultural heritage and museology, Spain, Susemihl, History of science, Aragón
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