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The Unicorn is in Captivity and No Longer Dead
Schmudde
Turin, Italy
Sohraub
Toronto, Canada
David Houston
London, United Kingdom
Tom Hart
Providence, RI, United States
Mark W
Baltimore, MD, United States
Rich M
Mt Airy, MD, United States
Simon
London, United Kingdom
Thilde Wolf
Lund, Sweden
Todd Pearson
San Francisco, CA, United States
George Webster
London, United Kingdom
The seventh and final scene from the "Unicorn Tapestries", one of the most spectacular but enigmatic surviving artworks of the late Middle Ages. Depicting a unicorn hunt, in the penultimate tapestry in the series the unicorn is eventually killed. In this last, however, the unicorn is shown alive and well, and entirely tamed. He is fenced in and chained to a tree, but the chain is less than secure and the fence is low. He has submitted to his captivity. The red stains on his flank, in the words of the Met’s catalog, “do not appear to be blood, as there are no visible wounds like those in the hunting series; rather, they represent juice dripping from bursting pomegranates” — a medieval symbol of marriage and fertility. In the resurrection element there is also a clear parallel with the story of Jesus. (Image source: The Metropolitan Museum)
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