The unicorn tapestries / Margaret B. Freeman, Curator Emeritus, The Cloisters
1976, 1st edition. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : distributed by Dutton. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #425416
ISBN: 0870991477
Physical description; 244 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Subjects; Cloisters (Museum). The Cloisters. New York (N.Y.) Cloisters. Hunt of the unicorn. Hunt of the unicorn tapestries. Tapestry, Medieval France.Tapestry, Gothic France. Unicorns in art.
Price: €50.00