Her research leads her to the Unicorn Tapestry, an iconic real-life piece ... the tapestries were stolen and believed lost during the French Revolution. Although they were eventually recovered ...

It was recovered after the French Revolution ... “If you look in the bottom right corner of this tapestry, just under the unicorn, you can see a woman’s hand,” says Scharfman.

Not much is known about the craftspeople behind the tapestries, save that the works were richly woven with gilded threads, possibly in Brussels, in a 15th-century French style. The first record of ...

New Tapestry” interrogate the yearning inherent in the unicorn tapestries—including the yearning for money and power that has shaped the history of the medium. For instance, during the French ...

and tapestry -- that most elite of Old Master staples rediscovered by French Modernists and sumptuously displayed in the Clark Art Institute’s Wall Power!, a show I’ve seen twice. It’s a ...

One of the finest works of late medieval art is the “Lady and the Unicorn” tapestry. It’s a celebration of the senses —taste, hearing, sight, and touch — as a woman savors Europe’s ...

The Lady and the Unicorn' is a mysterious masterpiece at ... This report, broadcast in partnership with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), shows how researchers try to ...

The tapestries, which range from 1940 to the present day, are on display through March 9 as part of “Wall Power! Modern French Tapestry from the Mobilier national, Paris” at the Clark Art Institute.