The Unicorn Tapestries
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976. Hardcover. Maroon cloth, pictorial DJ. 244 pp. 305 color and bw ills. VG/VG-, wear to DJ edges. Item #27585
ISBN: 9780870991479
Thorough analysis of the Unicorn Tapestries at the Cloisters. Contents as follows: Unicorn in ancient and medieval texts -- Unicorn in medieval and early Renaissance art -- Birds and the beasts of the tapestries -- Hunt -- Groves of trees, the flowery fields, and the gardens -- The AE the FR and other problems relating to the original ownership of the tapestries -- Making of the tapestries -- Tapestries in the inventories, their treatment during the French revolution, and their history in later years.
OCLC: 2020670
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