Talk:Dürer's Rhinoceros

this pdf might have something good. I've seen multiple sources including this one stressing the importance of Conrad_Gesner's republishing-slash-plagiarism of the woodcut, by way of it becoming so well known. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 20:39, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Is this too fringe? Glynis Ridley, in Clara's Grand Tour, theorizes that the woodcut is an accurate depiction -- of the Rhino in modified horse armour! She thinks the beast was suited up as part of the presentation to the Pope, and that Dürer actually got a look at it.

Now I think this sounds fishy -- surely the inscription would mention a detail like that? -- but that's just me. Opinions on whether this merits mention? —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 03:22, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Clara's Grand Tour?! I was half-joking on Geogre's talk page about Clara the rhinoceros... And the story of the man who mistook a baboon for a hyena is a classic.

Is the hypothesis that Dürer saw the armoured-up rhino in Lisbon? When? I think the generally-accepted chronology has Dürer making the woodcut from the letter sent to Nuremburg, well before the rhino went to Rome. -- ALoan (Talk) 12:02, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]