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
- The Reformation (1517)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Michelangelo (1475)
- Reign of Henry VIII (1509)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508)
- Martin Luther (1483)