The Unicorn Tapestries | Explore & Learn | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two fragments of a lost tapestry from the Unicorn Tapestries (detail), ca. 1495–1505
South Netherlandish
Wool warp, wool, silk, silver, and gilt wefts; at the left, height 6 feet, 6 inches; width 2 feet, 1 inch (1.98 x .65 meters). At the right, height 5 feet, 6 inches; width 2 feet, 1 inch (1.69 x .65 meters)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1937 (37.80.1,2)

The roses blooming in the garden of this tapestry are symbolic of Mary—the white ones of her virginity, the red ones of her charity and compassion.

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