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Unicorn Tapestry, The Met Cloisters, New York, USA

Hunters return to the castle, 1495-1505, detail, depicting the killing of the unicorn and the presentation of its body to the lord and lady, in the Unicorn Tapestries Room, housing 7 tapestries depicting the Hunt of the Unicorn, in The Cloisters, a museum specialising in European medieval architecture, sculpture and decorative arts, part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at Fort Tryon Park, Manhattan, New York, USA. This tapestry was woven in wool, silk, gilt and silver thread in the Southern Netherlands from a cartoon designed in Paris, France. The Cloisters collection includes Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance works from 12th to 15th centuries. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Hunters return to the castle, 1495-1505, detail, depicting the killing of the unicorn and the presentation of its body to the lord and lady, in the Unicorn Tapestries Room, housing 7 tapestries depicting the Hunt of the Unicorn, in The Cloisters, a museum specialising in European medieval architecture, sculpture and decorative arts, part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at Fort Tryon Park, Manhattan, New York, USA. This tapestry was woven in wool, silk, gilt and silver thread in the Southern Netherlands from a cartoon designed in Paris, France. The Cloisters collection includes Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance works from 12th to 15th centuries. Picture by Manuel Cohen