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Rhinoceros

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Description: Rhinoceros
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Description: Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
~Although Albrecht Dürer never saw a rhinoceros, his 1515 woodcut was the authoritative representation of the animal for centuries. Based on drawn and written accounts sent from Lisbon, where a rhinoceros had been shipped from India as a gift to the King of Portugal, Dürer’s woodcut was a revelation because a rhinoceros had not been...
PublisherHarvard Art Museums
Related print edition pages: pp.163-183
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00097.010

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