Masterpieces of the British Museum

Dürer's Rhinoceros (1x5)

Air date: Jul 12, 2006

Albrecht Dürer's Rhinoceros is one of the most famous works in the British Museum collection. It is also one of the great images of European art--an image that has taken on an iconic status all its own. But what is so special about this simple woodcut of a lumbering, clumsy, Asian animal? Why has it influenced generations of artists, designers and craftsmen?