The Lady and the Unicorn

The Lady and the Unicorn

Author: Tracy Chevalier

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2004-12-28

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1101213183

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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.


The Temptation of the Night Jasmine

The Temptation of the Night Jasmine

Author: Lauren Willig

Publisher: Allison & Busby

Published: 2011-08-29

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 0749040254

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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.


A Blessing of Unicorns

A Blessing of Unicorns

Author: Barbara Drake Boehm

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2020-08-01

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 1588397130

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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.


The Maiden and the Unicorn

The Maiden and the Unicorn

Author: Isolde Martyn

Publisher: Momentum

Published: 2016-04-28

Total Pages: 611

ISBN-13: 1760301922

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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.


The Unicorn Tapestries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Unicorn Tapestries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Author: Adolph S. Cavallo

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0870998684

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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.


New Boy

New Boy

Author: Tracy Chevalier

Publisher: Arrow

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781784700249

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She noticed him before anyone else. Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat's son Osei Kokote 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.


Sublime Beauty

Sublime Beauty

Author: Esther Susan Bell

Publisher: Giles

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781907804731

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Celebrates one of Raphael's most beguiling and enigmatic paintings, Woman with a Unicorn of 1506-9


The Lady and the Unicorn

The Lady and the Unicorn

Author: Cynthia Birrer

Publisher: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9780688040376

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A princess wandering on her uncle's estate discovers that she is the only one with the ability to see a lonely unicorn and break the spell enchanting it.


Into the Land of the Unicorns

Into the Land of the Unicorns

Author: Bruce Coville

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780545068246

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Having jumped into the fantasy land of Luster, Cara joins Lightfoot the unicorn in the search for Queen Arabella Skydancer.