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Title The unicorn tapestries / Margaret B. Freeman
Published New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : distributed by Dutton, 1976

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 W'BOOL  746.394 New  AVAILABLE
 W'PONDS  746.394 Clo/Uta  AVAILABLE
Description 244 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
regular print
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Cloisters (Museum)
SUBJECT Hunt of the unicorn. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008063912
Subject Art and mythology.
Christian art and symbolism -- Medieval, 500-1500 -- Themes, motives.
Tapestry -- France.
Tapestry, Gothic -- France.
Tapestry, Medieval -- France.
Unicorns in art.
Author Freeman, Margaret B.
Cloisters (Museum)
LC no. 76002466
ISBN 0870991477