This is a repost of an article that appeared on ARHtistic License last year.
Last month I promised I would post about the Unicorn Tapestries that hang in The Cloisters (see my post Cloister Me). They have special meaning for me. I first saw them as a freshman in high school on a field trip. And they figure largely in the mystical fantasy I am writing, about a high school freshman who is uniquely impacted by seeing the Unicorn Tapestries while on a field trip to The Cloisters (any similarities between this character and, um, any living person is strictly a coincidence).
Picture found on http://thinkmuseum.wordpress.com/tag/metropolitan-museum-of-art/
Taken together, the tapestries tell an allegory that would have been familiar to medieval audiences. The story is called The Hunt of the Unicorn as an Allegory of the Passion. It begins with a scene of hunters equipped with spears and dogs.
The second tapestry is called The Unicorn is…
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I’ve seen these tapestries – they are stunning in real life. 🙂
Ros
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I love tapestries. I have several in my house, but no unicorns yet.
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I clicked ahead. Because, you know, unicorns. Those tapestries are incredible, absolutely incredible. and to see how they’ve been preserved…any idea of when they were completed?
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It’s believed they were made between 1495 and 1505. They may be parts of two different series.
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Wow. From the pictures, they look incredibly well preserved.
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