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I challenge the "hilarious inaccurate" because I suspect it is due to people not knowing how a rhino actually look, combined with a prejudice towards pre-modern
by olavk 10y ago
I challenge the "hilarious inaccurate" because I suspect it is due to people not knowing how a rhino actually look, combined with a prejudice towards pre-modern artistic depiction of exotic animals. If you actually compare the drawing to the photo, the drawing is actually amazingly accurate, down to details like the skin on the legs and the toes.
And if you look at the photo you will notice the rhino actually has hairy ears.
- lobster_johnson 10y agoThere are so many details that are wrong. Rhinos have a tiny fringe of hair at the top of the ear (http://wandering-photographer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Rhino-ear.jpg http://wandering-photographer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11...), but Dürer draws them as being all hair, like a dog. The shape is right, everything else is wrong, which makes sense given that he mainly had a textual description of the animal to work from.