See also this:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Patricia_Lurati/publication/336944609_The_Merchant%27s_Eye_A_New_Perception_of_Exotic_Animals/links/5dbc0eda4585151435db7f1e/The-Merchants-Eye-A-New-Perception-of-Exotic-Animals.pdf
"While in Egypt, in 1436, Ciriaco [d'Anconna] saw a giraffe, and the
sketch he drew from life, now lost, was enormously successful in Europe,
as its many copies show." You can see a copy of the sketch on page 4 of
the pdf-file.
Jussi-Pekka Lajunen kirjoitti 26.7.2020 klo 20.39:
Maybe he had seen Domenico Ghirlandaio's fresco in the Tornabuoni
Chapel in Florence?
"The Adoration of the Magi by Domenico Ghirlandaio, part of a cycle in
the Tornabuoni Chapel was painted just after the arrival of the Medici
giraffe and shows the animal descending a hill on the right-hand side."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medici_giraffe#/media/File:Cappella_tornabuoni,_06,_adorazione_dei_magi.jpg
Tristan von Neumann kirjoitti 26.7.2020 klo 18.40:
How did the illuminator (Mr. Vidal?) know how a Giraffe looks?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Capirola_lutebook.jpg
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