Terrace with Garden in Alien Covenant – Concept Artist Wayne Haag’s Homage to Giger’s Isle of the Dead

We know from a podcast interview at AVPGalaxy with Wayne Haag that Arnold Bocklin's Isle of the Dead was a point of discussion with Ridley during the production. Beyond doubt, the terrace garden by Wayne Haag appears to be an homage to Giger’s work. A number of people connects it with Giger's interest in Bocklin's Isle of the Dead, because of his painting that payed homage to the fifth version of Isle of the Dead.

There are terraces with trees around the huge circular building in the Engineer's city in Alien Covenant. Probably this is the scene where Shaw’s tombstone is revealed in the movie.

Wayne Haag’s Terrace with Garden:

Island of the Dead (fifth version) by Arnold Bocklin:

Giger’s Homage to Bocklin after Bocklin’s Isle of the Dead (1977):

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