The Lady And The Unicorn

Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101213183
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lady and the Unicorn written by Tracy Chevalier and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-12-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown—until now. Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the house—mother and daughter, servant, and lady-in-waiting—before taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven. There, master weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has to finish the tapestries—his finest, most intricate work—on time for his exacting French client. The results change all their lives—lives that have been captured in the tapestries, for those who know where to look. In The Lady and the Unicorn, Tracy Chevalier weaves fact and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry—an extraordinary story exquisitely told.

Author : Sutherland Lyall
Publisher : Parkstone International
ISBN 13 : 1783108142
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lady and The Unicorn written by Sutherland Lyall and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2024-01-17 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary medieval tapestry The Lady and the Unicorn is Sutherland Lyall’s starting point for this journey into the world of mythology and mystery which has been woven around the myth of the unicorn and the lady. We learn that the unicorn is the symbol for power and the lady may be mother, mistress or virgin. With an abundant collection of documents form a number of international museums, Lyall’s writing is an exciting exploration, a lively new examination, of old subjects. Who knows - perhaps he has finally sloved the mystery of The Lady and the Unicorn!

Author : Lauren Willig
Publisher : Allison & Busby
ISBN 13 : 0749040254
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Temptation of the Night Jasmine written by Lauren Willig and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2011-08-29 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After twelve years in India, Robert, Duke of Dovedale, returns to his estates in England with a mission in mind: to infiltrate the infamous Hellfire club to unmask the man who murdered his mentor at the Battle of Assaye. Intent on revenge, Robert never anticipates that an even more difficult challenge awaits him, in the person of one Lady Charlotte Lansdowne.

Author : Adolph S. Cavallo
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870998684
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unicorn Tapestries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Adolph S. Cavallo and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1998 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most popular attractions at The Cloisters, the medieval branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is a set of tapestries depicting the hunt of the fabled unicorn. Each of the seven exquisite tapestries is reproduced in large colorplates and with a wealth of color details. Created in the Netherlands in 1495-1505, they contain supremely memorable images - from the vulnerable unicorn and the individualized faces of the hunters to the naturalistically depicted flora and fauna. The author also looks at the construction of the tapestries and the historical and cultural context in which they were woven.

Author : Barbara Drake Boehm
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588397130
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Blessing of Unicorns written by Barbara Drake Boehm and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Bulletin examines the fascinating stories behind the only known sets of unicorn tapestries in the world—one at The Met Cloisters and another at the Musée de Cluny, Paris. The thirteen tapestries that compose the two sets—six at the Cluny and seven at The Met—remain shrouded in mystery, with their origins and original owners still unknown. Considering the iconography of these two collections together and drawing from primary sources, this Bulletin aims to reach a better understanding of these masterworks and their mythical subject that has captured the public imagination for centuries.

Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9781784700249
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Boy written by Tracy Chevalier and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A compact and intense read full of twists, turns and intrigue' Daily Express The bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Last Runaway returns with a tale of jealousy, bullying and revenge. Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat's son Osei knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day - so he's lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can't stand to witness this budding relationship- Ian decides to destroy the friendship between the black boy and the golden girl. By the end of the day, the school and its key players - teachers and pupils alike - will never be the same again. The tragedy of Othello is transposed to a 1970s suburban Washington schoolyard in Tracy Chevalier's powerful drama of friends torn apart.

Author : Isolde Martyn
Publisher : Momentum
ISBN 13 : 1760301922
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maiden and the Unicorn written by Isolde Martyn and published by Momentum. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Margery, the choice between 'spy' or 'wife', is really no choice at all. When King Edward IV offers her an irresistible challenge – to act as his secret courier to France – Margery is more than willing to risk her life for the King and escape marriage to Sir Richard Huddleston, the man who kidnapped her to further his political career. Yet upon arriving in France, Margery is shocked to discover that Richard is the man her powerful protector, Warwick the Kingmaker, has decreed she will marry. As Warwick forms a despicable alliance with King Edward's foes, Margery finds herself ensnared in a vicious web of political intrigue. Torn between loyalty to Edward and a dangerous attraction to her enigmatic, traitor husband, Margery's mission becomes a race against time to outwit her enemies and, above all, Richard. This unforgettable tale of power, passion, and intrigue is perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory, Diana Gabaldon and Alison Weir. "A wonderfully interwoven tapestry of a book" – Bestselling novelist Barbara Erskine Winner of the Romance Writers of America Rita Award for Best First Novel 2000 and the Romance Writers of Australia Romantic Book of the Year Award in 1999.

Author : Sutherland Lyall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lady and the Unicorn written by Sutherland Lyall and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary medieval tapestry The Lady and the Unicorn is Sutherland Lyall's starting point for this journey into the world of mythology and mystery which has been woven around the myth of the unicorn and the lady. We learn that the unicorn is a symbol for power and the lady may be mother, mistress or virgin. With an abundant collection of documents from a number of international museums, Lyall's writing is an exciting exploration, a lively new examination, of old subjects. Who knows - perhaps he has finally solved the mystery of the Lady and the Unicorn!

Author : Esther Susan Bell
Publisher : Giles
ISBN 13 : 9781907804731
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sublime Beauty written by Esther Susan Bell and published by Giles. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates one of Raphael's most beguiling and enigmatic paintings, Woman with a Unicorn of 1506-9

Author : Rumer Godden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lady and the Unicorn written by Rumer Godden and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: