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.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 1515
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- English Reformation (1533)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)