Topic Three: Rhinoceros Questions

 Rhinoceros Article Questions

Question 4

I prefer the woodcut by Hans Burgkmair than by Albrecht Durer. I suppose that I prefer the wider range of shades that Burgkmair captures with his technique in crosshatching and marksmanship. The bolder lines just seems to have more of a presence, and I feel that I can read more color from this woodcut than from the one by Durer.

 Question 7

I find Giovanni Penni's depiction of the rhinoceros to be most amusing for a variety of reasons. It is, first off, the outlier amongst all the other depictions of the rhinoceros. It definitely does not share the amount of detail that all the other depictions have, and it has no variation in line weight. I think the main reason it amuses me is because of the assumptions I had before I saw the depiction. When I read the article about Penni's depiction, and how he was well informed on how the rhinoceros looked, I instantly assumed that Penni had drawn a hyper realistic rhinoceros with immense amounts of details. Then when I saw the depiction, I thought to myself "wait what?" I was expecting something that wasn't even really hinted at in the article, and it caught me off guard