The Academy of Sciences Has a Rare First Edition of Dürer's Rhinoceros

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The Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (AS CR) owns a work of extraordinary artistic value. It turned out that the well-preserved woodcut of a rhinoceros by the famous German painter and graphic artist Albrecht Dürer from the institution's possession comes from the first edition in 1515. The discovery was confirmed by an expert examination from the Institute of Art History of the AS CR. The rare find was presented by expert…

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The first edition of Dürer's Rhinoceros is owned by only a few other collection institutions in the world, such as the British Museum, the Louvre in Paris, or the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The woodcut from 1515 is not an accurate depiction of a real rhinoceros, as Dürer never saw one. He made several mistakes in interpreting the sketch and the accompanying reports that reached him. For example, the small horn on the rhinoceros's ne…

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Prague - An expert report by the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (AS CR) has confirmed that the Czech Republic has the first edition of the woodcut Rhinoceros by the German painter and graphic artist Albrecht Dürer (1471 to 1528). The library of the AS CR acquired it in the 1950s. Today, the first edition was presented at the opening of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Week festival.