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minus-squareTomMasz@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·16 days agoMedieval artists had no trouble depicting animals they had never seen based on a description by a guy who heard it from another guy who had sailed past Africa once. This is pretty good by that standard.
minus-squaregreenhorn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·16 days agoDürer’s rhino is such an impressive instance of that (Wikipedia)
Medieval artists had no trouble depicting animals they had never seen based on a description by a guy who heard it from another guy who had sailed past Africa once. This is pretty good by that standard.
Dürer’s rhino is such an impressive instance of that (Wikipedia)