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DURER'S RHINOCEROS AND STUBBS'S skeletal horse are superb Durer. He studied the image and drew his own interpretation.
affirmations of the power of drawing as a recorder and Converted into a print, Durer's image changed eager hands
communicator of knowledge. The first live rhinoceros to reach until it was known across Europe. It was to become the
Europe came from India in May 1515, a gift to the Portuguese animal's only accepted likeness for 250 years, inspiring
King. He in turn sent the mysterious creature to the Pope countless works of art and so touching people's imaginations
via Marseilles at the request of the King of France. Sailing to that later, when more accurate portrayals were made without
Rome, the ship was lost, but the drowned animal washed armor and scales, they were rejected. Stubbs's Anatomy of the
ashore. Carefully stuffed, it continued its journey to Rome. Horse achieved similar documentary status. Unsurpassed, it is
Meanwhile, a drawing of it arrived in Nuremberg, the home of still consulted by veterinarians today, years after its publication.

ALBRECHT DURER Life-like This is Durer's original quill-and-ink drawing made Original Ink Drawing of a Rhinoceros
German Renaissance painter, draftsman, after an anonymous Portuguese drawing. It is such a lifelike
printmaker, naturalist, writer, and mathematician. triumph of imagination and intelligence that for centuries 1515
Durer traveled widely to study at different European zoologists never questioned its authority. Contemporary texts
schools of art, filled journals with ideas and related accounts of the beast as the mortal enemy of the 103/4x 161/2 in ( 2 7 4 x 4 2 0 mm)
observations, and wrote four books on proportion. elephant and rare relative of the "more common" unicorn.
ALBRECHT DURER