Question

Answer the following about artists who made images of animals they had never seen in person, for 10 points each.
[10e] This artist notoriously depicted a rhinoceros’s skin like a sheet of armor in a woodcut. This master of the German Renaissance also made Knight, Death and the Devil.
ANSWER: Albrecht Dürer [or Albert Dürer]
[10h] This British artist’s portrait of a dingo looks more like that of a large dog. He is better known for his more accurate paintings of horses, such as a 1762 painting of the Marquess of Rockingham’s racehorse Whistlejacket.
ANSWER: George Stubbs
[10m] This French artist claimed his painting Tiger In A Tropical Storm was based on jungle scenes he witnessed in Mexico. This “naïve” artist exhibited his painting The Dream at the 1910 Salon des Indépendants.
ANSWER: Henri Rousseau [or Henri Julien Félix Rousseau]
<Michael Bentley, Fine Arts - Painting - Misc&gt; ~22559~ &lt;Editor: Chandler West>

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