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Tapestries have been an enigmatic form of artwork for hundreds of years, with the intricate symbolism of their woven narratives still fascinating viewers today. Unicorns and fantastic beasts rub shoulders with well-heeled aristocrats; famous biblical and saintly stories are play…
Tapestries have been an enigmatic form of artwork for hundreds of years, with the intricate symbolism of their woven narratives still fascinating viewers today. Unicorns and fantastic beasts rub shoulders with well-heeled aristocrats; famous biblical and saintly stories are play…
The original narrative and purpose of The Hunt of the Unicorn tapestries on display at The Cloisters of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York have been lost to time. Theories abound in an attempt to expound this lost narrative, including traditions of courtly love and the b…
This qualifying paper is an account of the conservation of two out of seven panels comprising a twentieth-century tapestry The Spiritual Journey. The artwork was created by Ina Golub, a fiber artist whose largest collection of works is housed at the Yeshiva University Museum (YU…
“Woven World: The Creation Tapestry of Girona” interrogates the function and meaning of the medieval map. Works of art like the eleventh-century Creation Tapestry of Girona, Spain redefine our modern definition of the word “map.” Medieval artists, like the exegetes of the time, …
