Albrecht Dürer’s keen interest in nature was a typical manifestation of Renaissance curiosity. Animals were not generally considered to be appropriate subjects for serious art until the 18th century.

It’s 500 years since rhinos captured the Western imagination. Now they are in grave danger. Five hundred years ago, in the summer of 1515, an Indian rhinoceros arrived in Europe after four ...

But the rhino lived on by reputation and, even while it was alive, accounts, poems and sketches of the exotic creature spread across Europe. One sketch reached Albrecht Dürer, in Nuremberg ...

How did one exaggerated armored rhino influence European illustration for centuries? Trace the artistic origins from Albrecht Dürer to Conrad Gessner and beyond, with images from Smithsonian ...

This is a type of print called a woodcut by the German artist Albrecht Dürer ... Dürer had never actually seen a rhinoceros, he made the print after reading a description that was written ...