Dürer publishes the 1515 Rhinoceros woodcut from a written description
In 1515 Dürer issued a woodcut of a rhinoceros sent to Lisbon, working from a description rather than a sitting. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.
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In 1515 Dürer issued a woodcut of a rhinoceros sent to Lisbon, working from a description rather than a sitting. The dated print is not the Maximilian Ehrenpforte and not a later zoological correction. Albrecht Dürer’s documented role is: He made a woodcut of an Indian rhinoceros he had not seen, from a letter and sketch. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear.
Context
A print of an unseen animal is not a unique census of India. Named others on the file: Lisbon witnesses, unnamed block-cutters, and later copyists share the image’s spread. The public setting is the file around 1515-01-01. The instrument stays Dürer publishes the 1515 Rhinoceros woodcut from a written description. The setting of Dürer publishes the 1515 Rhinoceros woodcut from a written description is the public file around 1515-01-01. Driver edu-digital-learning-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
Shared responsibility is part of Dürer publishes the 1515 Rhinoceros woodcut from a written description. Naming Albrecht Dürer does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1515-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.
Why it matters
Complex shared description. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated print spread a public image of a new animal through Europe as a knowledge-and-error instrument. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Albrecht Dürer
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.36 · verified
He made a woodcut of an Indian rhinoceros he had not seen, from a letter and sketch.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactDürer publishes the 1515 Rhinoceros woodcut from a written description
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 1515 · verified
A dated print spread a public image of a new animal through Europe as a knowledge-and-error instrument.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.12 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.1 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.09 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Britannica — Albrecht DürerEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
- 2.National Gallery of Art — Dürer printsNational Gallery of Art, Washington · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Britannica and NGA independently date the 1515 Rhinoceros as a Dürer woodcut distinct from Maximilian work. Official: Britannica — Albrecht Dürer, Rhinoceros woodcut (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: National Gallery of Art — Dürer Rhinoceros heritage (https://www.nga.gov/ (opens in a new tab); National Gallery of Art). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — Albrecht Dürer, Rhinoceros woodcut (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: National Gallery of Art — Dürer Rhinoceros heritage (https://www.nga.gov/ (opens in a new tab); National Gallery of Art).
Established: 1515 Rhinoceros woodcut. Not established: that later editions are first-state 1515. Established: a sourced public record of Dürer publishes the 1515 Rhinoceros woodcut from a written description under 1515-01-01.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Dürer publishes the 1515 Rhinoceros woodcut from a written description are separate paths.
That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorAlbrecht Dürer
- contributed toFactDürer publishes the 1515 Rhinoceros woodcut from a written description
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
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Factrail. (2026). Dürer publishes the 1515 Rhinoceros woodcut from a written description. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/adr-rhinoceros-1515
https://factrail.ai/facts/adr-rhinoceros-1515
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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