The Lady And The Unicorn
Trade cloth edition in near fine condition. Dust jacket with intact price point in near fine condition with intact cut out sections revealing beautifully decorated front and back boards. Full number line starting with 1.
“I feel like a bird who has been wounded with an arrow and now cannot fly.”
Tracy Chevalier’s tale of artistic creation and late-medieval amours is a subtle study in social power, and the conflicts between love and duty. Nicolas des Innocents has been commissioned by the Parisian nobleman Jean Le Viste to design a series of large tapestries for his great hall (in real life, the famous Lady and the Unicorn cycle, now in the Musee National du Moyen-Age Thermes de Cluny). While Nicolas is measuring the walls, he meets a beautiful girl who turns out to be Jean Le Viste’s daughter. Their passion is impossible for their world—so forbidden, given their class differences—that its only avenue of expression turns out to be those magnificent tapestries. The historical evidence on which this story is based is slight enough to allow the full play of Chevalier’s imagination in this cleverly woven tale.
For more information about the tapestries now considered one of the great masterpieces of Western Art visit: https://www.musee-moyenage.fr/en/collection/the-lady-and-the-unicorn.html
Trade cloth edition in near fine condition. Dust jacket with intact price point in near fine condition with intact cut out sections revealing beautifully decorated front and back boards. Full number line starting with 1.
“I feel like a bird who has been wounded with an arrow and now cannot fly.”
Tracy Chevalier’s tale of artistic creation and late-medieval amours is a subtle study in social power, and the conflicts between love and duty. Nicolas des Innocents has been commissioned by the Parisian nobleman Jean Le Viste to design a series of large tapestries for his great hall (in real life, the famous Lady and the Unicorn cycle, now in the Musee National du Moyen-Age Thermes de Cluny). While Nicolas is measuring the walls, he meets a beautiful girl who turns out to be Jean Le Viste’s daughter. Their passion is impossible for their world—so forbidden, given their class differences—that its only avenue of expression turns out to be those magnificent tapestries. The historical evidence on which this story is based is slight enough to allow the full play of Chevalier’s imagination in this cleverly woven tale.
For more information about the tapestries now considered one of the great masterpieces of Western Art visit: https://www.musee-moyenage.fr/en/collection/the-lady-and-the-unicorn.html
Trade cloth edition in near fine condition. Dust jacket with intact price point in near fine condition with intact cut out sections revealing beautifully decorated front and back boards. Full number line starting with 1.
“I feel like a bird who has been wounded with an arrow and now cannot fly.”
Tracy Chevalier’s tale of artistic creation and late-medieval amours is a subtle study in social power, and the conflicts between love and duty. Nicolas des Innocents has been commissioned by the Parisian nobleman Jean Le Viste to design a series of large tapestries for his great hall (in real life, the famous Lady and the Unicorn cycle, now in the Musee National du Moyen-Age Thermes de Cluny). While Nicolas is measuring the walls, he meets a beautiful girl who turns out to be Jean Le Viste’s daughter. Their passion is impossible for their world—so forbidden, given their class differences—that its only avenue of expression turns out to be those magnificent tapestries. The historical evidence on which this story is based is slight enough to allow the full play of Chevalier’s imagination in this cleverly woven tale.
For more information about the tapestries now considered one of the great masterpieces of Western Art visit: https://www.musee-moyenage.fr/en/collection/the-lady-and-the-unicorn.html
ISBN 0-525-94767-1
Tracy Chevalier
2004