Gallery 017 - Unicorn Tapestries Room (The Cloisters)

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Cloisters Gallery 017

Cloisters Gallery 017

Cloisters Gallery 017

The Unicorn in Captivity (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Date: 1495–1505
Accession Number: 37.80.6
The Unicorn is Killed and Brought to the Castle (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Date: 1495–1505
Accession Number: 37.80.5
The Hunters Enter the Woods (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Date: 1495–1505
Accession Number: 37.80.1
The Unicorn is Attacked (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Date: 1495–1505
Accession Number: 37.80.3
Aquamanile in the Form of a Unicorn
Date: ca. 1425–50
Accession Number: 64.101.1493
The Unicorn is Found (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Date: 1495–1505
Accession Number: 37.80.2

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Seven world-famous tapestries depicting The Hunt of the Unicorn adorn this gallery. Against a landscape richly woven with lush flora and fauna, the mythical beast, possessed of magic powers, tries in vain to escape the men and dogs that pursue him. A large fireplace evokes the kind of aristocratic setting in which these tapestries, first recorded in Paris in 1680, originally would have been situated.

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