The zoological precision of Albrecht Duerer's Rhinocerus. This finely detailed woodcut by Albrecht Dürer, one of the great artists of the Northern European Renaissance, documents the arrival in Europe of the first rhinoceros to be seen there since the days of the Roman Empire. Dürer himself never saw the rhino, he saw descriptions of the animal and a sketch that eyewitnesses had sent from Lisbon to Nuremberg. Spot the differences. This finely detailed woodcut by Albrecht Dürer, one of the great artists of the Northern European Renaissance, documents the arrival in Europe of the first rhinoceros to be seen there since the days of the Roman Empire. ALBRECHT DÜRER Rhinocerus, 1515 © Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main