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| Rhinos fascinated peoples through the ages. Even in early (2600-1900 BC)
during Harappan Civilization rhinos were in the arts. |
A stone seal from the Indus Valley Civilization (c. 3000–1500
BC, flourished 1900 BC) depicting a Rhino. |
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| A Rhinoceros depicted on a Roman mosaic in Villa Romana del Casale, an
archeological site near Piazza Armerina in Sicily, Italy. |
Moghul emperor Babur on a rhino Hunt (1526-1530) hunt. |
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| The Indian Rhinoceros was the first rhinoceros known to Europeans. The
strange beast was unusual indeed, being the first rhinoceros ever seen in
England, and only the third ever to set foot on European soil. Extracts
from : London Gazette on 10 October 1684. |
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| In 1515, he created
his woodcut of
the Rhinoceros which had arrived in Lisbon from a written description
and sketch by another artist, without ever seeing the animal himself. Despite
being a relatively inaccurate image of the Indian rhinoceros, the image
has such force that it remains one of his best-known and was still used
in some German school science text-books as late as last century. In the
years leading to 1520 he produced a wide range of works, including portraits
in tempera on linen in 1516. |
Albrecht Dürer (May 21, 1471 – April 6, 1528)[1] was a German painter,
printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His prints established his reputation
across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally
regarded as the greatest artist of the Renaissance in Northern Europe ever
since |
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| Lady Curzon learned about the Great One-horned Rhinoceros of Kaziranga
from her tea-plantation friends and wanted to see them. In the winter of
1904 she visited the Kaziranga area, and saw some of their hoof marks, but
was disappointed by not having seen a single rhinoceros. It was reported
that the noted Assamese animal tracker, Balaram Hazarika, showed Lady Curzon
around Kaziranga and impressed upon her the urgent need for its conservation.
Concerned about the dwindling numbers of rhinoceros, she asked her husband
to take the necessary action to save the rhinoceros, which he did. The Kaziranga
Proposed Reserve Forest thus was created. Later it was developed into the
Kaziranga National Park. |
Handmade oil painting reproduction of Noah's Ark, a painting by Thierry
Bellange.(26.08.08) |
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