The Unicorn Tapestries
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The Unicorn Tapestries or the Hunt of the Unicorn is a series of seven tapestries made in the Southern Netherlands around 1495–1505, and now in The Cloisters in New York City. They were possibly desig
"The Unicorn Rests in a Garden", also called "The Unicorn in Captivity", is the best-known of the Unicorn Tapestries.
"The Hunters Return to the Castle"
"The Unicorn Purifies Water"
"The Unicorn Defends Himself"
The Cloisters
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The Cloisters is a museum in Fort Tryon Park, straddling the neighborhoods of Washington Heights and Inwood, in Upper Manhattan, New York City. The museum specializes in European medieval art and arch
The Unicorn Tapestries
…the Hunt of the Unicorn (French: La Chasse à la licorne) is a series of seven tapestries made in the Southern Netherlands around 1495–1505, and now in The Cloisters in New York City. They were possibly designed in Paris and woven in Brussels. They depict a group of noblemen and hunters in pursuit of a unicorn through…
View of the main entrance
George Barnard and Clare Sheridan at his cloister in New York City, 1921
John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1920
Chalice, paten and straw, made of silver, gilded silver, niello and jewels. Münstertal, Black Forest, Germany, c. 1230–50. From the collection of Joseph Brummer