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3	''A History of Painting (With Dinosaurs)'' is a 2022 book by palaeoartist John Conway (''Literature/AllYesterdays'').
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5	The book is a collection of art of dinosaurs [[note]][[MyFriendsAndZoidberg with a few pterosaurs for good measure]][[/note]] done up InTheStyleOf other, more stylistic forms of {{paintings}}, from {{painters}} of UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance to Creator/{{Rembrandt}} to Creator/AndyWarhol, imagining how they might have drawn them in their own styles.
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7	!!Tropes:
8	* AnachronismStew:
9	** Modern dinosaur designs with feathers, supinated hands, and whatnot appear well even before the world knew what dinosaurs were. It’s lampshaded in the foreword which puzzles over it.
10	** Quite a few of the side texts give dates for where each subject genus lived, but many are way off. The more egregious examples are:
11	*** ''Pteranodon'' is said to live 70 million years ago (coresponding to the Maastrichtian stage), when it lived 83 million years ago (the Santonian stage).
12	*** ''Dilophosaurus'' did not live 220 million years ago, as the label for a Matisse-inspired piece states, nor was that date part of the Early Jurassic period.
13	* ExcusePlot: The book’s introduction contains reference to an art collector who assembled a now-lost collection of the paintings, but that’s forgotten about in favour of presenting the parade of each art piece in question.
14	* MonaLisaSmile: Patsiched with a ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursOrnithischianDinosaurs Heterodontosaurus]]'' in place of the lady.
15	* {{Pastiche}}: All of the book's art are these of various paintings from throughout history with dinosaurs replacing the subject of each.
16	* RiddleForTheAges: How did artists from throughout history get (non-avian) dinosaurs so right even before they were even discovered, and why did no one notice all the while?
17	* TheScreamParody: “The Scream” is among the works pastiched, where an unnamed troodont fans its wings, its head mimicking the shape of the Scream’s head.

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