The unicorn tapestries Margaret B. Freeman, Curator Emeritus, the Cloisters

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cloisters (Museum)

Contributor:

Freeman, Margaret B.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cloisters (Museum).

Hunt of the unicorn.

Tapestry, Medieval--France.

Tapestry, Medieval.

Tapestry, Gothic--France.

Tapestry, Gothic.

Unicorns in art.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 pages) illustrations (some color)

Distribution:

Distributed by Dutton 1976

Place of Publication:

New York Metropolitan Museum of Art : 1976

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Cloisters (Museum). Unicorn tapestries

ISBN:

0525226435

9780525226437

OCLC:

681503955