Lady and the Unicorn, The
by Tracy Chevalier | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0452285453 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0452285453 Global Overview for this book
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From the Publisher:
A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier's answer to the mystery behind one of the art world's great masterpieces: a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown until now.
Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the house mother and daughter, servant, and lady-in-waiting before taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven. There, master weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has to finish the tapestries his finest, most intricate work on time for his exacting French client. The results change all their lives lives that have been captured in the tapestries, for those who know where to look.
In The Lady and the Unicorn, Tracy Chevalier weaves fact and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry an extraordinary story exquisitely told.
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From the Publisher:
A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier's answer to the mystery behind one of the art world's great masterpieces: a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown until now.
Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the house mother and daughter, servant, and lady-in-waiting before taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven. There, master weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has to finish the tapestries his finest, most intricate work on time for his exacting French client. The results change all their lives lives that have been captured in the tapestries, for those who know where to look.
In The Lady and the Unicorn, Tracy Chevalier weaves fact and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry an extraordinary story exquisitely told.
Congratulations on catching this great book! Please make a journal entry so I know that it has found a good home with you. If you do want to join Bookcrossing, then I would be honored if you would use SecurityBlanket. -- that's me -- as the name of the person who referred you.
When you finish this book, please click 'make journal entry' again and share your thoughts about it. When you're ready to send it on its way to a new reader please make another journal entry if you are giving it to a known person, or a 'release note' if you are leaving it in the 'wild' for anyone to catch, then let this book continue its travels. Then watch its journey. You'll be alerted by e-mail each time someone makes another journal entry. Bookcrossing is confidential (no one is ever given your e-mail address) and free.
I hope you will enjoy the Bookcrossing experience!
This book is being included in a box of books to Kitten22. This book is destined for joasik in The Netherlands -- I hope you will enjoy it! :)
Thank you kitten for helping my books to see the world! :)
Mailed: 22 January 2007
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