The Unicorn Tapestries

They are Fascinating. The Cloisters museum in the Bronx also had a narwal horn, and I wonder if someone found that and thought, where does that fit in. oh, a unicorn.

here's a couple photos I took of the unicorn hunt tapestries. They're quite violent. "to the almond-shaped gash the unicorn tore with his horn into the side of the dog. I pointed to the rose forming from the dog’s bloody wound, "

https://www.flickr.com/photos/acomjean/50619351191/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/acomjean/50619458907/

and captured

https://www.flickr.com/photos/acomjean/50618611988

Maybe the squirrel is just there because squirrels are cool, and it’s something common to see in a tree? I’m not sure how you go from that to celebrating the marriage of King so an so. That’s like looking at a Bob Ross painting and declaring the happy little clouds are there to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s assertion to the throne. I’d love to see one of these art interpreting people go 1:1 with a living artist.

“Capturing the Unicorn” - the story of The Unicorn Tapestries and the mathematician brothers Gregory and David Chudnovsky:

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/04/11/050411fa_fact

The Unicorn Tapestries were also featured in the anime Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, currently on Netflix:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iR4g9cDS4Tc/VJOqRvkbCNI/AAAAAAAAAk...

Perhaps due to the tapestries’ association with the Rockefellers? Gundam writers have long played with themes of powerful families who direct world events in secret, such as through Gundam Wing’s fictional “Romefeller Foundation”:

https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Romefeller_Foundation

The Unicorn Tapestries recently appeared in another HN thread about a chateau for sale in France: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24821866