The writer-director Alex Scharfman has, for one, borrowed visual and thematic ideas from the unicorn tapestries at the Cloisters, the medieval branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and he’s ...

Medieval art is full of unicorns. One famous example is the series of tapestries known as the Lady and the Unicorn, which now hang in the Musée Cluny in Paris. And the artworks have an unexpected ...

This virginal association continued throughout art history. In Raphael's "Portrait of a Young Woman with a Unicorn" (1505-1506), a young lady poses for the painter holding a small unicorn as if it ...

The unicorn's sage-like origins Ancient depictions of the mythical creature date back to the Bronze Age. A bovine animal with one long horn was commonly featured on seals used by the Indus Valley ...