![]() ![]() We are shown how they reflect dynastic pride, the guild system, the special demands of the medium and, more tendentiously, certain characteristics which the author attributes to the main players, from piety to lust. We see them through the eyes of the patron, his wife, the artist, the weaving team, even their woad seller. Just as her previous success, Girl with a Pearl Earring, imagined the story behind a painting by Vermeer, so here her theme is the lovely, famous but mystifying late-15th-century Lady and Unicorn tapestries in the Musée de Cluny. For this, I owe Tracy Chevalier my thanks. I began in a state of puzzled ignorance about this beautiful but inaccessible art, and now find myself loving it. ![]() This is a book for anyone who does not like tapestry. The Lady and the Unicorn, by Tracy Chevalier Country Life's Top 100 architects, builders, designers and gardeners. ![]()
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