Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer was the German Renaissance's rock star, a master painter and printmaker who even had a famous "AD" monogram for a logo. This guy drew a rhinoceros without ever seeing one, influencing how Europe pictured the beast for centuries. A man of immense talent, he was creating stunning self-portraits as a teen and later became a favorite of the Holy Roman Emperor. Rumor has it his famous "Praying Hands" was a tribute to a brother who wrecked his own hands in the mines to fund Dürer's education—a touching, if likely untrue, story. Another tale claims he won the first-ever art copyright lawsuit in an Italian court, though this is also debated. More credibly, his friends were supposedly so devoted they exhumed his body for plaster casts of his face and hands. Now that's fandom.