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The Unicorn Tapestries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Language: en
Pages: 130
Authors: Adolph S. Cavallo
Categories: Art and mythology
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Among the most popular attractions at The Cloisters, the medieval branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is a set of tapestries depicting the hunt
A Blessing of Unicorns
Language: en
Pages: 52
Authors: Barbara Drake Boehm
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-01 - Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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This Bulletin examines the fascinating stories behind the only known sets of unicorn tapestries in the world—one at The Met Cloisters and another at the Musé
Tapestry in the Renaissance
Language: en
Pages: 606
Authors: Thomas P. Campbell
Categories: Tapestry, Renaissance
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Tapestries--the art form of kings--were a principal tool used by powerful Renaissance rulers to convey their wealth and might. From 1460 to 1560, courts and chu
Masterpieces of Tapestry from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Geneviève Souchal
Categories: Gobelin tapestry
Type: BOOK - Published: 1974 - Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The present exhibition is one of a series of five worked out in the partnership [between the Metropolitan Museum and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux of Franc
How to Read Medieval Art
Language: en
Pages: 138
Authors: Wendy A. Stein
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-07 - Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The intensely expressive art of the Middle Ages was created to awe, educate and connect the viewer to heaven. Its power reverberates to this day, even among the