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| Author | : Isolde Martyn |
| Publisher | : Momentum |
| Total Pages | : 611 |
| Release | : 2016-04-28 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1760301922 |
For Margery, the choice between 'spy' or 'wife', is really no choice at all. When King Edward IV offers her an irresistible challenge – to act as his secret courier to France – Margery is more than willing to risk her life for the King and escape marriage to Sir Richard Huddleston, the man who kidnapped her to further his political career. Yet upon arriving in France, Margery is shocked to discover that Richard is the man her powerful protector, Warwick the Kingmaker, has decreed she will marry. As Warwick forms a despicable alliance with King Edward's foes, Margery finds herself ensnared in a vicious web of political intrigue. Torn between loyalty to Edward and a dangerous attraction to her enigmatic, traitor husband, Margery's mission becomes a race against time to outwit her enemies and, above all, Richard. This unforgettable tale of power, passion, and intrigue is perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory, Diana Gabaldon and Alison Weir. "A wonderfully interwoven tapestry of a book" – Bestselling novelist Barbara Erskine Winner of the Romance Writers of America Rita Award for Best First Novel 2000 and the Romance Writers of Australia Romantic Book of the Year Award in 1999.
| Author | : Cloisters (Museum) |
| Publisher | : Dutton Books |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 1976 |
| Genre | : Hunt of the unicorn |
| ISBN | : 0870991477 |
| Author | : Barbara Drake Boehm |
| Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Total Pages | : 52 |
| Release | : 2020-08-01 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1588397130 |
This Bulletin examines the fascinating stories behind the only known sets of unicorn tapestries in the world—one at The Met Cloisters and another at the Musée de Cluny, Paris. The thirteen tapestries that compose the two sets—six at the Cluny and seven at The Met—remain shrouded in mystery, with their origins and original owners still unknown. Considering the iconography of these two collections together and drawing from primary sources, this Bulletin aims to reach a better understanding of these masterworks and their mythical subject that has captured the public imagination for centuries.
| Author | : Adolph S. Cavallo |
| Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Art and mythology |
| ISBN | : 0870998684 |
Among the most popular attractions at The Cloisters, the medieval branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is a set of tapestries depicting the hunt of the fabled unicorn. Each of the seven exquisite tapestries is reproduced in large colorplates and with a wealth of color details. Created in the Netherlands in 1495-1505, they contain supremely memorable images - from the vulnerable unicorn and the individualized faces of the hunters to the naturalistically depicted flora and fauna. The author also looks at the construction of the tapestries and the historical and cultural context in which they were woven.
| Author | : Rosemary Hill |
| Publisher | : Profile Books |
| Total Pages | : 86 |
| Release | : 2015-11-05 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1782831126 |
a) The Unicorn As with the night-scented stock, the full splendour of the unicorn manifests itself most potently at twilight. Then the horn sprouts, swells, blooms in all its glory. SEE THE HORN (bend the tab, slit in slot marked 'x') Despite being one of the most influential - and best-loved - of the post-war English writers, Angela Carter remains little-known as a poet. In Unicorn, the critic and historian Rosemary Hill collects together her published verse from 1963-1971, a period in which Carter began to explore the themes that dominated her later work: magic, the reworking of myths and their darker sides, and the overturning of literary and social conventions. With imagery at times startling in its violence and disconcerting in its presentation of sexuality, Unicorn provides compelling insight into the formation of a remarkable imagination. In the essay that accompanies the poems the critic and historian Rosemary Hill considers them in the context of Carter's other work and as an aspect of the 1960s, the decade which as Carter put it 'wasn't like they say in the movies'.
| Author | : Teresa Bateman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Aristocracy (Social class) |
| ISBN | : 9780823417285 |
A serving girl, disappointed that her childhood friend is becoming a copy of his proud and unforgiving father, the Duke, helps him to see that the unicorn sought by the Duke's hunting party is too precious to kill.
| Author | : Tracy Chevalier |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2004-12-28 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101213183 |
A 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. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown—until now. Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. 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. There, master weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has to finish the tapestries—his finest, most intricate work—on time for his exacting French client. The results change all their lives—lives that have been captured in the tapestries, for those who know where to look. In The Lady and the Unicorn, Tracy Chevalier weaves fact and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry—an extraordinary story exquisitely told.
| Author | : Elizabeth Morrison |
| Publisher | : Getty Publications |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1606065904 |
A celebration of the visual contributions of the bestiary--one of the most popular types of illuminated books during the Middle Ages--and an exploration of its lasting legacy. Brimming with lively animals both real and fantastic, the bestiary was one of the great illuminated manuscript traditions of the Middle Ages. Encompassing imaginary creatures such as the unicorn, siren, and griffin; exotic beasts including the tiger, elephant, and ape; as well as animals native to Europe like the beaver, dog, and hedgehog, the bestiary is a vibrant testimony to the medieval understanding of animals and their role in the world. So iconic were the stories and images of the bestiary that its beasts essentially escaped from the pages, appearing in a wide variety of manuscripts and other objects, including tapestries, ivories, metalwork, and sculpture. With over 270 color illustrations and contributions by twenty-five leading scholars, this gorgeous volume explores the bestiary and its widespread influence on medieval art and culture as well as on modern and contemporary artists like Pablo Picasso and Damien Hirst. Published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center May 14 to August 18, 2019.
| Author | : Beate Sigriddaughter |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 181 |
| Release | : 2008-10-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0557007895 |
A collection of short stories about and observations by a white unicorn with opinions on pretty much everything
| Author | : Timothy Findley |
| Publisher | : Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Arche de Noé - Romans |
| ISBN | : 9780140073065 |
