The lady and the unicorn tapestries

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Unicorn have been described since antiquity. The medieval unicorn is a wild creature, a sybol of purity and grace. Tiles based on the medieval unicorn tapestries.

Medieval Art – Lady and the Unicorn is a drawing from a medieval manuscript. / The medieval period of art history spans from the fall of the Roman Empire in 300 AD to the beginning of the Renaissance in 1400 AD. / The medieval art of the Western world covers a vast scope of time and place, ov… • Millions of unique designs by independent artists. Find your thing.

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The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries, woven around 1500, have been called the ‘Mona Lisa of the Middle Ages’. While they make for breathtaking viewing, their threads are encoded with much meaning.

Finishing up our trip through the pages of the latest catalog from Design Toscano, we find the following tapestries containing heraldry as a major design element: Above, the Portieve du Char Wall Tapestry (http://www.designtoscano.com/product/code/PC2479.do) with the arms of France and Navarre. Here we have Le Toucher Tapestry (Touch, one of a set of six late 15th Century Flemish tapestries known as The Lady and the Unicorn) (http://www.designtoscano.com/product/code/PC2056.do), with the…

New York City, Metropolitan Museum, The Cloisters The Unicorn Tapestries on “the hunt of the unicorn” Series of seven Flemish tapestries from around 1500 CE

Unicorn have been described since antiquity. The medieval unicorn is a wild creature, a sybol of purity and grace. Tiles based on the medieval unicorn tapestries.

Lady with the Unicorn tapestry (c. 1495)