Durer's Rhinoceros
AD 1515 · Resource
Albrecht Durer's 1515 woodcut of an Indian rhinoceros, drawn from a description without his ever seeing the animal - the first live rhino in Europe since antiquity. A landmark print of the Renaissance.
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Around 1515
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Martin Luther (1483)
- English Reformation (1534)
- St Peter's Basilica completed (1506)
- English Reformation ends (1559)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- English Reformation begins (1534)
- Death of Henry VIII (1547)
- Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508)