Inspired by... the rhinoceros in art.
Primitive woodcut illustrating a poem of Giovanni Giacomo Penni
primitive woodcut from a Berenguier book
"I will not return without victory" is the motto on this woodcut
from the collection of Alessando di Medici, published
in a book called Dialogo by Paolo Giovio
Hans Burgkmair the elder
Albrecht Dürer
Bob Warren
Michael Speaker
from Sebastian Münster's Cosmosgraphia
Tapestry detail from Kronborg Castle, Coppenhagen, Denmark
Ulisse Aldrovandi from an early zoological encyclopedia
Walton Ford
Salvador Dalí's rhinoceros in Spain
Katherine Lane Weems
(one of two—Bessie and Victoria—at the Harvard University
Biological Science building)
Scott Wilson Design
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Wow, awesome collection of rhinos!
ReplyDeleteRhinoes are amazing, they do what they want, and you can't teach a rhino any tricks. (that bit from Brave New World made me love the animals so much more)
ReplyDeleteFrom Brave New World, Chapter 6, where Henry Foster compares Bernard to a rhinoceros: "You can't teach a rhinoceros tricks," he had explained in his brief and vigorous style. "Some men are almost rhinoceroses; they don't respond properly to conditioning. Poor Devils! Bernard's one of them. Luckily for him, he's pretty good at his job. Otherwise the Director would never have kept him. However," he added consolingly, "I think he's pretty harmless."
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