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The Lady and the Unicorn: À mon seul désir (Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris). The Lady and the Unicorn (French: La Dame à la licorne) is the modern title given to a series of six tapestries created in the style of mille-fleurs ("thousand flowers") and woven in Flanders from wool and silk, from designs ("cartoons") drawn in Paris around 1500. [1]
"The Unicorn Rests in a Garden," also called "The Unicorn in Captivity," is the best-known of the Unicorn Tapestries. [1]The Unicorn Tapestries or the Hunt of the Unicorn (French: La Chasse à la licorne) is a series of seven tapestries made in the South Netherlands around 1495–1505, and now in The Cloisters in New York.
The tapestry weighs over one tonne. According to the cathedral, it is the largest tapestry made in one single piece. [10] However, the Guinness Book of Records lists a 2018 tapestry in Peru, at 288.5 square metres (3,105 sq ft), as the largest. [11] In 2015, it underwent surface cleaning and minor repairs. [1] [12]
Section of the Bayeux Tapestry. The 'Bayeux Tapestry' (a misnomer as it is really an embroidery not a tapestry) tells the story of the Norman invasion of England in 1066. The theme of the Bayeux Tapestry is treason and deception. [17] The narrative reflects a partisan Norman view of the events of the conquest of England.
Tapestry by Le Corbusier in Chandigarh, 1953 Tapestry of Christ in Glory, 1962, Coventry Cathedral, 75.5 feet (23.0 m) high, designed by Graham Sutherland and woven by Pinton Frères, Felletin, France. What distinguishes the contemporary field from its pre-World War II history is the predominance of the artist as weaver in the contemporary medium.
This tapestry uses a silk weft that covers the wool warp. In typical Renaissance production style, this tapestry would have been woven using a warp stretched over two rollers, following a painted cartoon underneath it using small areas of color, or hachures, that in juxtaposition form complicated visual effects of vibration and shading.
Marjane Satrapi, the acclaimed Iranian-French filmmaker and cartoonist, has won the 2024 Princess of Asturias Foundation award for communication and humanities, the Spanish organization announced ...
The six original tapestries illustrate the story of the Grail quest as told in Sir Thomas Malory's 1485 book Le Morte d'Arthur.Like other Morris & Co. tapestries, the Holy Grail sequence was a group effort, with overall composition and figures designed by Edward Burne-Jones, heraldry by William Morris, and foreground florals and backgrounds by John Henry Dearle.