What does the story of Dürer's Rhinoceros tell you about northern Europe during the 1500s, and the impact of the printing press on art and the communication of knowledge?

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Kristin Tucker

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27 June, 23:32

What does the story of Dürer's Rhinoceros tell you about northern Europe during the 1500s, and the impact of the printing press on art and the communication of knowledge?

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What the story of Dürer's Rhinoceros tells about northern Europe during the 1500s, and the impact of the printing press on art and the communication of knowledge is the following.

In the 1500s, Dürer was capable of drawing what the people in northern Europe used to imagine and talked about. He drew the famous Rhinoceros, a piece of work of 1515 on wood. The magical thing about this piece of art is that Dürer had never seen a rhinoceros, and he used a written description to elaborate his work. Without a doubt, a magnificent piece of art.

The impact of the printed press on art was that it allowed artists to print their works and have many copies to sell them or distributed. This new kind of communication spread knowledge and information in a vastly different and quicker way than in the past.