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 ...

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 ...

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 ...