‘Mona Lisa of woven artworks’ goes back on display at its Paris museum home after a two-year restoration A woman admires the newly restored "The Lady and the Unicorn" tapestries during a press ...

The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries, woven around 1500, have been called the ‘Mona Lisa of the Middle Ages’. While they make for breathtaking viewing, their threads are encoded with much meaning.

Rick Steves' Europe. Art Bites 138: "The Lady and the Unicorn" Tapestry. Clip | 2m 28s Video has Closed Captions | CC. One of the finest works of late medieval art is a celebration of the senses.

Housed in a special climate-controlled room at the Musée du Cluny in Paris, the Lady and the Unicorn is composed of six tapestries in the mille fleurs (“thousand flowers”) style. Showcasing a ...

"My Sole Desire" from The Lady and the Unicorn tapestry series, c1500. Sydney writer Charlotte Wood, who drew on the tapestries when writing her award-winning novel The Natural Way of Things ...

Slight, luminous, and hugely popular, Tracy Chevalier’s 2000 novel, ”Girl With a Pearl Earring,” told a nuanced tale of the powerful attraction between the painter Johannes Vermeer and Griet ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Of course, I love the unicorn, the slightly goofy and very tame-looking lion, and the elegant lady and her attendant, but last time ...

The tapestry cycle "The Lady and the Unicorn", considered one of the greatest artworks of Europe's Middle Ages, is being sent to Japan for six months for a rare foreign showing, the Cluny Museum in ...

Chevalier, whose bestselling Girl with a Pearl Earring showed how a picture can inspire thousands of words, yokes her limpid, quietly enthralling storytelling to the six Lady and the Unicorn ...

Just as her previous success, Girl with a Pearl Earring, imagined the story behind a painting by Vermeer, so here her theme is the lovely, famous but mystifying late-15th-century Lady and Unicorn ...