Library Catalog

Library Catalog
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1040
Release: 1960
Genre: Art
ISBN:

A Blessing of Unicorns

A Blessing of Unicorns
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.

Rethinking Boucher

Rethinking Boucher
Author: Melissa Lee Hyde
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780892368259

"Unequivocally a modern, Francois Boucher (1703-70) defined the French artistic avant-garde throughout his career. Yet the triumph of modernist aesthetics - with its focus on the self-critical, the autonomous, and the intellectually challenging - has long discouraged art historians and other viewers from taking Boucher's playful and alluring works seriously. Rethinking Boucher revisits the cultural meanings and reception of his diverse oeuvre, inviting us to revise the interpretive cliches by which we have sought to tame this artist and his epoch."--BOOK JACKET.