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. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown-until now. Orphans Treasure Box sells books to raise money for orphans and vulnerable kids.Ī 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.
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