In the 16th century, imitators of Albrecht Dürer's style of printmaking improved the market for their own prints by signing them " AD ", making them forgeries.

Dürer's Rhinoceros, woodcut, 1515.

The German artist Albrecht Dürer saw the sketches and descriptions and carved a woodcut of the rhino, known ever after as Dürer's Rhinoceros.

About this time he began to make copies of Dürer's woodcut series, the Life of the Virgin.

* Dürer's Rhinoceros, a woodcut image

Analyzing Albrecht Dürer's famous 1515 woodcut, it is possible that the liberties taken with the rhino's design were in fact designs for a suit of armour created for the rhinoceros's fight against an elephant in Portugal.

Later printed breviaries usually have woodcut illustrations, interesting in their own right but the poor relation of the beautifully illuminated breviaries.

In both Europe and the Far East, traditionally the artist only designed the woodcut, and the block-carving was left to specialist craftsmen, called block-cutters, or Formschneider in Germany, some of whom became well known in their own right-among the best known are the 16th century Hieronymus Andreae ( who also used " Formschneider " as his surname ), Hans Lützelburger and Jost de Negker, all of whom ran workshops and also operated as printers and publishers.

Although like most artists for woodcut he normally let a specialist formschneider cut the block to his drawing, he sometimes included both a cutter's knife and a quill pen in his signature on prints, suggesting he sometimes cut his own blocks.

In our own practice, to have the last `` intonaco '' plaster coat thick enough to match, and at the same time to avoid fine cracks in drying, we found that it had to be put on in two layers, letting the first set awhile before applying the second.

The district of Offenstetten previously possessed its own coat of arms.

This language has its own vocabulary and syntax, or rules governing word order, which becomes essential for comprehension when blazoning a complex coat of arms.

The right-wing newspapers nevertheless lambasted him consistently for what they saw as his bohemian eccentricity, attacking him for wearing what they described as a " donkey jacket " ( actually he wore a type of duffel coat ) at the wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day in November 1981, for which he was likened to an " out-of-work navvy " by one of Labour's own MPs.

This led such commentators to offer the figure of Noah as " the man in a fur coat ," who ensured his own comfort while ignoring his neighbour.

Each republic had its own unique set of state symbols: a flag, a coat of arms, and, with the exception of the Russian SFSR, an anthem.

With the dissolution of the University of New Zealand, the newly independent University of Canterbury devised its own coat of arms, blazoned:

* Košice becomes the first town in Europe to be granted its own coat of arms.

In 1800 Jurij Vega obtained a title of hereditary baron including the right to his own coat of arms.

He becomes irritated that he can't get his own coat and is forced to wait until the only person remaining in the area, is the woman with his hat and coat.

The fishermen, like all professions in town, got their own order in 1422, and the fish found its way onto their coat of arms.

Some long-haired cats are not able to maintain their own coat, which may be prone to matting, and must be frequently groomed by a human.

Each battalion had its own flag, which could incorporate different elements including the heraldic coat of arms of the King of Spain.

The neighbouring Belgian province of Luxembourg uses a coat of arms similar to the red lion flag on its own flag.

42 of 25 January 2002, the Princess was granted her own personal coat of arms and a personal standard.

According to Klein, this fits perfectly in with the Swedish folklore that Charles ’ magical protection, ( in contemporary times, he was rumoured to be of such strong breed and character that he was bullet proof ) had been broken by a killer who shot him with the king ’ s own coat button.

Since 1995 the province Norrbotten has a coat of arms of its own, but the county arms have not been changed accordingly.

The Báthory coat of arms, granted in 1325 to the sons of Briccius, was styled in reference to this legend: three horizontally placed teeth surrounded by a dragon biting its own tail.

Around the turn of the 21st century, senior staff members acquired the company and made progress to establish the traditional rubberised Mackintosh coat as an upmarket brand in its own right.

* The wooden " coat hanger " bomb sight intended to enable crews to release the weapon at the right distance from the target was not wholly successful ; some crews used it, but others came up with their own solutions, such as pieces of string in the bomb-aimer's position and / or markings on the blister.

Notably, the Fitzwilliam coat of arms is the only college emblem to reference the University's own coat of arms.

The Governor has his own flag, the Union Flag defaced with the territory's coat of arms.

It was a sort of poetic justice that at the time of his own demise a new plot to overthrow the Venezuelan government, reportedly involving the use of Dominican arms by former Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez, has been uncovered and quashed.

First on my own list would be two arms -- a rifle and a handgun -- that qualify as new in the strictest sense.

Autosuggestibility, the reaction of the subject in such a way as to conform to his own expectations of the outcome ( i.e., that the arm-rise is a reaction to the pressure exerted in the voluntary contraction, because of his knowledge that `` to every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction '' ) also seems inadequate as an explanation for the following reasons: ( 1 ) the subjects' apparently genuine experience of surprise when their arms rose, and ( 2 ) manifestations of the phenomenon despite anticipations of something else happening ( e.g., of becoming dizzy and maybe falling, an expectation spontaneously volunteered by one of the subjects ).

Renard and German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz explored the wing loading ( weight to wing-area ratio ) of birds, eventually concluding that humans could not fly under their own power by attaching wings onto their arms.

The arms of Oriental Orthodox bishops will display the episcopal insignia ( mitre or turban ) specific to their own liturgical traditions.

Goalkeepers are the only players allowed to play the ball with their hands or arms, but they are only allowed to do so within the penalty area in front of their own goal.

They were stripped naked and had been hogtied with their own shoelaces: their right ankles tied to their right wrists behind their backs, the same with their left arms and legs.

After affirming that he had no intention of taking up arms Fox was able to speak with Cromwell for most of the morning about the Friends and advised him to listen to God's voice and obey it so that, as Fox left, Cromwell " with tears in his eyes said, ' Come again to my house ; for if thou and I were but an hour of a day together, we should be nearer one to the other '; adding that he wished no more ill than he did to his own soul.

In addition, the US maintained an arms and goods embargo against the country during the years of its own conflict with Great Britain.

Civil liberties are rights and freedoms that provide an individual specific rights such as the freedom from slavery and forced labor, freedom from torture and death, the right to liberty and security, right to a fair trial, the right to defend one's self, the right to own and bear arms, the right to privacy, freedom of conscience, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and association, and the right to marry and have a family.

" He also had pragmatic reasons for promoting de-nuclearisation, fearing that a nuclear arms race would lead to over-militarisation that would be unaffordable for developing countries such as his own.

To perform a clinch, the boxer loops both hands around the outside of the opponent's shoulders, scooping back under the forearms to grasp the opponent's arms tightly against his own body.

He focused on arms manufacturing, as the US railroad market purchased from its own growing steel industry.

Many Himalayan versions of the tale include eight arms with which Avalokitesvara skillfully upholds the Dharma, each possessing its own particular implement, while more Chinese-specific versions give varying accounts of this number.

The causes identified included arms races, alliances, secret diplomacy, and the freedom of sovereign states to enter into war for their own benefit.

Within Leonardo's own lifetime his fame was such that the King of France carried him away like a trophy and was claimed to have supported him in his old age and held him in his arms as he died.

In some cases, jurisdiction may overlap between organizations ; for example, in the United States, each state has its own statewide law enforcement arms, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation is able to act against certain types of crimes occurring in any state.

It was based on Eric's own arms from Pomerania: an argent with a griffin gules.

The country has a large and fully indigenous arms industry, producing most of its own military equipment with only few types of weapons imported.

In the U. S. Marine Corps every officer must own a sword, which is prescribed for formal parades and other ceremonies where dress uniforms are worn and the rank-and-file are under arms.

Andreuola loves Gabriotto: she tells him a dream that she has had ; he tells her a dream of his own, and dies suddenly in her arms.