The Unicorn Tapestries at the Cloisters
The Cloisters Museum in NYC
The Cloisters Museum in NYC
The Cloisters Museum in NYC
The Cloisters Museum is located in Fort Tryon Park, NYC.
Unicorn tapestries room
The Cloisters Museum in NYC
The Cloisters Museum in NYC
The set of seven tapestries depicting the Hunt for the Unicorn are located in gallery 17.
The hunters enter the woods
The Cloisters Museum in NYC
This panel shows the beginning of the hunt for the unicorn.
The unicorn surrenders to a maiden
The unicorn surrenders to a maiden
Two fragments from a single tapestry panel were damaged during the looting of the castle in 1793. Note the maiden's arm around the unicorn's neck.
The Unicorn rests in a garden.
The unicorn surrenders to a maiden
The Unicorn rests in a garden.
Note the flowers in the background, called millefleurs, French for thousand flowers.
The unicorn purifies water.
The unicorn surrenders to a maiden
The Unicorn rests in a garden.
People believed that the unicorn's magical horn could purify water.
Eighteenth-Century Indigo-Resist printed textiles
Mid-18th century blue-resist panel owned by the MET.
