Tag: rhinoceros
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Why a rhinoceros?
Behold! Albrecht Dürer’s rhinoceros! It is a marvel of imagination and technology. Not only did Dürer make his woodcut from written descriptions, but, with the arrival of moveable type printing, it became one of the best-known images in sixteenth-century Europe. The rhinoceros was the Grumpy Cat of 1515. The rhinoceros and printing mark the start […]
Samuel Wood 