Unicorn tapestry

Did you know “The Unicorn in Captivity,” on view at #TheCloisters museum and gardens, was featured in “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince”? The Unicorn in Captivity (from the Unicorn Tapestries), 1495–1505. South Netherlandish. #metmuseum #BacktoHogwarts #HarryPotter #Hogwarts

A MILLE FLEURS TAPESTRY WITH A UNICORN AND A STAG IN A FIELD OF FLOWERS

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.

The Unicorn in Captivity The seven individual hangings known as "The Unicorn Tapestries," are among the most beautiful and complex works of art from the late Middle Ages that survive. Luxuriously woven in fine wool and silk with silver and gilded threads, the tapestries vividly depict scenes associated with a hunt for the elusive, magical unicorn. "The Unicorn in Captivity" may have been created as a single image rather than part of a series. In this instance, the unicorn probably represents…

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The Captive Unicorn tapestry is the last scene in the series of medieval tapestries The Hunt of the Unicorn at the Metropolitan Cloisters, woven in France

Nearly 35 years ago, the timeless book The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle was turned into an animated movie. With music by America, voices by Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Christopher Lee, Angela Lansbury, Alan Arkin, and Tammy Grimes, and the immense talent of the animators and creatives who would later form Studio Ghibli, The Last Unicorn was an incredible film that gripped the minds and hearts of all who grew up with it. Though the movie was released decades ago, the music and iconic scenes…

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Detail of ‘The Lady and the Unicorn tapestry (1420) Maltese dog on her skirt, Here we have the little white Jewel again in another Tapestry of the set of medieval tapestries of "The Lady and the Unicorn" in the Cluny in Paris....this time he is sitting on his Mommies skirt because he is too refined to sit on common earth, isn't it ? :-))

The artist behind the exquisite tapestries left numerous clues as to their meaning and origins—yet historians are still searching for conclusions.

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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