Albrecht Dürer [German painter, printmaker, mathematician, engraver, and theorist, 1471–1528] ‘Hare’ 1502 Watercolor and gouache, heightened with white gouache 25 x 22.5 cm Albertina - Graphic Arts Collection, Vienna, Austria. The Albertina's collection of Durer's works: gallery.albertina.at/eMuseum/code/eMuseum.asp?newaction=a... 460 ___ Many thanks to arthistory390 for his generous permission to use this superb image: flic.kr/p/aNSQKH

Study for an apostles' hand in The Heller Alter: flic.kr/p/bWxvoM Albrecht Dürer [German Northern Renaissance painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist, 1471 – 1528] Biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer Watercolor and gouache on green paper Albertina - Graphic Arts Collection, Vienna, Austria ___ Light restoration by plumleaves View of arthistory390's superb print: flic.kr/p/aNSFTn

Albrecht Dürer [German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist, 1471 – 1528] Biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer Artwork held at the Albertina, Vienna Original: gallery.albertina.at/eMuseum/media/full/4840.JPG

Leonardo da Vinci da Vinci was well-renowned for his love of animals, and the fact that he was vegetarian. He apparently frequently liberated birds from their cages and questioned whether or not h…

Melencolia I by Albrecht Dürer 16th century. A work from the collections of the de Young and Legion of Honor museums of San Francisco, CA.

In May 1515, the first rhinoceros since antiquity to reach Europe alive arrived in Lisbon, Portugal. The ruler of Gujarat, Sultan Muzafar II, presented the exotic beast to the governor of Portuguese India, Alfonso d’Albuquerque, who then sent it to King Manuel I. Later that year, the king sent the animal as a political gift to Pope Leo X. Sadly, the ship sank on its way to Italy, and the rhinoceros drowned. Dürer and his contemporaries were fascinated with discoveries of the natural world…

A 1511 edition of Dürer's Apocalypsis (The Apocalypse) is just one of the many literary and artistic achievements in Marks of Genius: Treasures of the Bodleian Library now at the Morgan Library & Museum.

Albrecht Dürer [German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist, 1471 – 1528] Biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer Watercolour and gouache on paper. Real Monasterio de El Escorial, Spain ___ Slight restoration by plumleaves

Albrecht Dürer [German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist, 1471 – 1528] 4.7 x 3.9 inches watercolor on paper Musee Bonnat, France www.museebonnat.bayonne.fr/index.php Biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer ___ Slight compilation and restoration by plumleaves