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Title:

The unicorn tapestries / based on a study of the Unicorn Tapestries by Margaret B. Freeman ; adaptation by Linda Sipress ; [introduction by Thomas Hoving].

Publisher:

Metropolitan Museum of Art,

Copyright Date:

c1974

Description:

173-228 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Subject:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)--Exhibitions.
Hunt of the unicorn (Tapestries)
Unicorns in art.
Tapestry--New York--New York--Exhibitions.
Art.--Periodicals.

Other Authors:

Souchal, Geneviève. Chefs-d'œuvre de la tapisserie du XIVe au XVIe siècle. English.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Notes:

The descriptions of the tapestries in the exhibition have been adapted from the text of the show's catalogue, written by Geneviève Souchal, Curator of the Cluny Museum. Some works from the exhibition, Masterpieces of Tapestry, are displayed before and after the main body of the text on buff-colored pages.

Contents:

The First Tapesty: The start of the hunt -- The Second Tapestry: The unicorn at the fountain -- The Third Tapestry: The unicorn leaps the stream -- The Fourth Tapestry: the unicorn defends himself -- Fragments from the Fifth Tapestry: The unicorn is captured by the maiden -- The Sixth Tapestry: The unicorn is killed and brought to the castle -- The Seventh Tapestry: The unicorn in captivity -- The creation of the Unicorn Tapestries -- The original ownership of the Unicorn Tapestries -- The history of the Unicorn Tapestries: 1680 to the present.

Series:

Metropolitan Museum of Art bulletin ; no. 1, 1973/1974

OCLC:

(OCoLC)70841474

Locations:

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)