THE MILANOSAURS SERIES
{Book available for purchase, contact me}
SAURO BOSCHIVO 2022
Pencil on paper
30x21cm
{Book available for purchase, contact me}
SAURO BOSCHIVO 2022
Pencil on paper
30x21cm
The drawings presented in these webpages are just a few from a series that makes up the illustrations of a book I have written. Originally, there was only a small text to complement the drawings, only later did it all developed into a full book.
The original text, which follows below, refers to the finding of an illustrated bestiary by an unknown author, featuring strange creatures, half dinosaurs half building, that appeared in the city of Milan, Italy. The mystery, however, has an explanation…
The book is available for purchase, please contact me should you wish to buy it.
An astonishing case of ‘evolutionary comeback’
This document is an excerpt. Surely the most incredible, of an urban bestiary published in Milan, Italy, long time ago, in the year of 2020.
About sixty-six million years before that time, dinosaurs still walked the earth. They were gigantic and their life relied on enormous spaces and limitless resources. At this point, life on earth, however, was quickly diversifying, featuring a greater and greater number of species which made those spaces and resources ever precious and to be shared by an ever-increasing number of creatures.
Some animals were successful, through evolution, in reducing their size and accordingly their need for space and food and thus managed to survive. Life for a giant was no longer sustainable and the dinosaurs’ extinction an inevitable fact.
In the years before 2020, starting from the last century of the second millennium, a new kind of architecture and design made its appearance the world over. It was an age when cities see flourish magnificent and tall buildings. It was this renewed architecture that brought about a new notion of urban planning where a large-scale world—the world of the skyscrapers—could come back to life. As urban spaces grew back to being big, conditions were met for the dinosaurs to come back on earth.
Already known to researchers and scientists for the fantastic shapes of their bodies and heads shown during their prehistoric time—a testimony to nature’s prolific creativity—dinosaurs seemed now to have found back in Milan, world capital of design, that same aesthetic flare, and elected this site for their comeback.
With a prodigious albeit unexplainable adaptation (one might define it as a tribute, if one was not speaking of animals) to Milan’s aesthetic and engineering prowess, not just between the two millennia but all along its history, dinosaurs took to populate the metropolis of Lombardy, breeding with a most multifarious biomorphic variety.
What you are about to witness is a detailed description of a miraculous species of new dinosaurs, with new shapes, features and appearances. A species that so marvellously managed to integrate, millions of years on, in a modern world. This document illustrates a fantastical, multifarious, case of ‘evolutionary comeback. We present to you the milanosaurs
The original text, which follows below, refers to the finding of an illustrated bestiary by an unknown author, featuring strange creatures, half dinosaurs half building, that appeared in the city of Milan, Italy. The mystery, however, has an explanation…
The book is available for purchase, please contact me should you wish to buy it.
An astonishing case of ‘evolutionary comeback’
This document is an excerpt. Surely the most incredible, of an urban bestiary published in Milan, Italy, long time ago, in the year of 2020.
About sixty-six million years before that time, dinosaurs still walked the earth. They were gigantic and their life relied on enormous spaces and limitless resources. At this point, life on earth, however, was quickly diversifying, featuring a greater and greater number of species which made those spaces and resources ever precious and to be shared by an ever-increasing number of creatures.
Some animals were successful, through evolution, in reducing their size and accordingly their need for space and food and thus managed to survive. Life for a giant was no longer sustainable and the dinosaurs’ extinction an inevitable fact.
In the years before 2020, starting from the last century of the second millennium, a new kind of architecture and design made its appearance the world over. It was an age when cities see flourish magnificent and tall buildings. It was this renewed architecture that brought about a new notion of urban planning where a large-scale world—the world of the skyscrapers—could come back to life. As urban spaces grew back to being big, conditions were met for the dinosaurs to come back on earth.
Already known to researchers and scientists for the fantastic shapes of their bodies and heads shown during their prehistoric time—a testimony to nature’s prolific creativity—dinosaurs seemed now to have found back in Milan, world capital of design, that same aesthetic flare, and elected this site for their comeback.
With a prodigious albeit unexplainable adaptation (one might define it as a tribute, if one was not speaking of animals) to Milan’s aesthetic and engineering prowess, not just between the two millennia but all along its history, dinosaurs took to populate the metropolis of Lombardy, breeding with a most multifarious biomorphic variety.
What you are about to witness is a detailed description of a miraculous species of new dinosaurs, with new shapes, features and appearances. A species that so marvellously managed to integrate, millions of years on, in a modern world. This document illustrates a fantastical, multifarious, case of ‘evolutionary comeback. We present to you the milanosaurs