Duerer Sketches a Rhinoceros
1515
Without ever seeing the animal, Albrecht Duerer made a woodcut of a rhinoceros based on a written description and rough sketch of an Indian specimen that had been shipped to King Manuel of Portugal. The beast was armored, fantastical, and largely inaccurate. It nonetheless defined the rhinoceros in European imagination for three centuries.
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.