It’s unclear how and why this part of the tapestry was lost. According to the Bayeux Museum’s website, the embroidery remained in the cathedral up until the outbreak of the French Revolution ...

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.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Of course, I love the unicorn, the slightly goofy and very tame-looking lion, and the elegant lady and her attendant, but last time ...

Rick Steves' Europe. Art Bites 138: "The Lady and the Unicorn" Tapestry. Clip | 2m 28s Video has Closed Captions | CC. One of the finest works of late medieval art is a celebration of the senses.

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.

A unicorn named Moonspill summons her, invoking a promise of aid made by a distant ancestor. The novel’s New York landscape is vividly portrayed: the Cloisters and its unicorn tapestries, the parks ...

Analyzing the legendary unicorn tapestries hanging at the Cloisters in New York (augmented here by a gory new panel that depicts the suddenly fearsome animals disemboweling and impaling their ...