The Hunt of the Unicorn

beginning of the tapestry craze for centuries to follow. In 1258, steps had been made in order to establish the craft of tapestry. A collection of guild statutes known as Book of Etienne Boileau was created which confirmed this establishment. Late gothic tapestries were highly pictorial with a greater variety of colors, as many as forty colors, and gold thread. Borders were wide with patterns of flowers and fruit. Gothic tapestries are described as “line” tapestries because they tend to accentuate line effects, especially vertical lines, which was influenced by Gothic architecture. An example of a tapestry set from the Late Gothic period is the series of six textiles focused on the theme of senses, such as touch and sight, in “Lady with Unicorn” of the 15th century. Moving on to Renaissance Tapestry, bold patterns with sweeping lines and decorative emphasis became the new trend. Designs featured Renaissance architecture and Flemish floral backgrounds with a lot of open space and more shading to give the effect of light and dark. Tapestries also changed in color scheme with the new period changing from Gothic red to color harmonies with white and yellow. There was a heavy influence of the Italian Renaissance encourage by Brussels designers due to Raphael’s appreciation and admiration for the culture. A famous tapestry, “The Last Supper,” designed by Van Orley is an example of this influence. The Baroque period featured a switch back to France with designs in shades of blue…

In Medieval Europe unicorns were kind of a big thing, which is downplaying the hype a great deal. The ancient Europeans used unicorns as a religious symbols; they constantly decorated the walls and windows of cathedrals and even small church buildings with the likeness of the mythical beasts. In addition, the sale of unicorn horns was an incredibly lucrative business at the time (Unicorn Fantasy and Fact). There was even one fisherman who claimed to have found the horn of a sea unicorn and…

mythical animals to immerse itself in culture is the unicorn. First mentioned in 2700 BC, the white stallion with a pointed spiral horn has been the talk for centuries. The unicorn is mentioned in more cultures than any other creature, including Greek, European, Indian, and Mesopotamian. that it’s Scotland’s national animal. Being in so many different cultures, many versions and stories of the animal exist. For example, in Chinese and other East Asian cultures, a creature exists called a Kirin…

How would you like to be followed by some crazy stalker for a year? You say you wouldn’t like it? Yeah, me either. But let's not worry about that because too many kids are dying without a stuffed unicorn. To solve this problem, we could get together with Agnes and Gru’s minions to create lots of unicorns in Gru’s lab. We should do this because obviously a lot of hands would work way faster, Gru says that his minions work faster when they’re making little baby unicorns. And working with minions…

It was a dark, quiet night in November. I was preparing for my hunt. I loaded my gun and gathered all my supplies I needed. I double checked everything, it needed to be perfect. I was going after that unicorn to kill it once and for all. When a unicorn comes out from the woods, it's my job to hunt it down. This unicorn had been coming after the cats. Where I come from, we praise cats. We let the cats roam free and it's our duty to make daily offering offering to them. Finding a dead cat in…

The Unicorn Is Found, is a miraculous tapestry that hangs in The Metropolitan Museum Of Art in New York. (Stokstad and Cothren). Unfortunately, the place of origin and the artist for this piece is unknown. It is composed of wool, silk, and metal threads, forming this 12-foot by 12-foot textile. This tapestry incorporates many human figures surrounding a simple fountain. The figures carry weaponry and shields, suggesting that these humans are on a hunt. They congregate together behind the…

(KhanAcademy.org), which allowed these artists to see their pieces come to life. Not much farther down the caves past the Chamber of Engravings, is the Shaft of the Dead Man. Unlike the Hall of Bulls, this portion of the caves is filled with a painting of what looks to be a bison with a human figure in the front of it and a rhinoceros; this painting contains the only image of a human being in the whole cave. After many theories of what this painting could delineate, priest Henri Breuil came up…

The classical element of nudity introduced into tapestry in the Renaissance robbed tapestry of it’s rich details of attire. Unlike the elaborate and detailed clothing of the hunters in the Unicorn at the Fountain, Adam and Eve in God Accuses Adam and Eve after the Fall do not wear clothing and God’s clothing is simplified in order to make the cloth appear to drape realistically. 
 The Renaissance tapestries such as God Accuses Adam and Eve after the Fall “introduce heavily shaded leaves and, in…

Jack was going to walk over toward the mountain until he was out of sight of the Sherriff and then he planned to take his thousand dollars and slip on down the road. But just as he got out of sight of the Sherriff and the deputies, that unicorn caught Jack’s smell and came a bellowing. Jack backed up against a huge oak tree, and tried to look invisible while he shook with fear. That unicorn didn’t need to see Jack, they have and excellent sense of smell. The unicorn came racing up over the hill,…

Narwhals are commonly names to be the unicorn whale because of the horn or tusk. Narwhals scientific name is monodon monoceros. The narwhals’ domain is Eukaryotic because it has a nucleus. The kingdom of narwhals is animalia. The phylum for dolphins is chordata the class of narwhal is mammalia. The geographic location for narwhal is in Greenland, Canada, Russia, and the Arctic Ocean. The biome where you can find narwhals is on the surface of the Arctic Ocean. Narwhals live in the icy waters of…