Albrecht Dürer’s first edition of Rhinoceros discovered in Czech Academy library

Radio Prague International - Topic «History»
05/11/2025 3 min
Albrecht Dürer’s first edition of Rhinoceros discovered in Czech Academy library

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The Czech Academy of Sciences has announced an extraordinary discovery. One of the first prints of Rhinoceros, the famous woodcut by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, dating back to 1515, has been found in the Academy’s library, where it has been stored since the 1950s.

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