One of the finest works of late medieval art is the “Lady and the Unicorn” tapestry. It’s a celebration of the senses —taste, hearing, sight, and touch — as a woman savors Europe’s ...

Around 1500, another seminal work of the western art cannon was woven: "The Lady and Unicorn" tapestries. The six tapestries feature a royally dressed woman surrounded by various animals ...

The subject of the sixth—featuring a woman inspecting jewelry ... experts have argued that celebrating the unicorn cycle as the apogee of tapestry arts crowds out the importance of other ...

“If you look in the bottom right corner of this tapestry, just under the unicorn, you can see a woman’s hand,” says Scharfman. “So the maiden that the unicorn is actually surrendering to ...

Her googling leads her straight to the Unicorn Tapestries (1495–1505), an assembly of exquisite woven textiles that recounts the tale of a unicorn’s capture. According to a video Ridley ...

Each of the six tapestries features a woman, dressed in very fine clothing and jewellery, accompanied by a gleaming white unicorn. Loading Instagram content Art historians generally agree that ...

The tapestry you just saw is one of seven in the Cloisters gallery. … of a unicorn, a creature that medieval viewers believed was real (perhaps partly based on reports of rhinos or other animals ...

Around 1500, another seminal work of the western art cannon was woven: "The Lady and Unicorn" tapestries. The six tapestries feature a royally dressed woman surrounded by various animals, with one ...