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            <display>unknown (Netherlandish tapestry weaver)</display>
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            <agent>
                <name vocab="ULAN" refid="500125274" type="personal">unknown</name>
                <role>tapestry weaver</role>
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            <culturalContext>French</culturalContext>
            <culturalContext>Flemish</culturalContext>
            <culturalContext>Netherlandish</culturalContext>
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            <display>ca. 1495-1505 (creation)</display>
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            <display>As early as the seventeenth century, the Unicorn Tapestries were documented as having been displayed as a group. Surely they were collected and exhibited together because together they illustrate the pursuit of the elusive unicorn completely, despite the likelihood that the seven individual hangings may come from two or more sets of tapestries. Little is known about their early history, though the seven hangings are thought to have been designed in Paris and woven in Brussels (then part of the Netherlands) between 1495-1505. They include the depiction of 101 species of plants, of which over 85 have been identified. The vibrant colors still evident today were produced with three dye plants: weld (yellow), madder (red), and woad (blue). The earliest document listing the seven tapestries is a 1680 inventory that details the possessions in the Paris residence of François VI de La Rochefoucauld. They were purchased from the Rochefoucauld family by John D. Rockefeller.</display>
            <description source="Metropolitan Museum of Art [website]; http://www.metmuseum.org (accessed 5/29/2009)">As early as the seventeenth century, the Unicorn Tapestries were documented as having been displayed as a group. Surely they were collected and exhibited together because together they illustrate the pursuit of the elusive unicorn completely, despite the likelihood that the seven individual hangings may come from two or more sets of tapestries. Little is known about their early history, though the seven hangings are thought to have been designed in Paris and woven in Brussels (then part of the Netherlands) between 1495-1505. They include the depiction of 101 species of plants, of which over 85 have been identified. The vibrant colors still evident today were produced with three dye plants: weld (yellow), madder (red), and woad (blue). The earliest document listing the seven tapestries is a 1680 inventory that details the possessions in the Paris residence of François VI de La Rochefoucauld. They were purchased from the Rochefoucauld family by John D. Rockefeller.</description>
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            <display>Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Cloisters (New York, New York, United States)</display>
            <notes>Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1937</notes>
            <location type="repository">
                <name type="geographic" vocab="other" refid="" extent="organization">Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Cloisters</name>
                <name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="7007567" extent="inhabited place">New York</name>
                <name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="7007568" extent="state">New York</name>
                <name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="7012149" extent="nation">United States</name>
                <name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="1000001" extent="continent">North and Central America</name>
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        <materialSet>
            <display>wool; metallic threads; silk</display>
            <notes/>
            <material/>
        </materialSet>
        <sourceSet>
            <display>Core 4 Sample Database (VCat)</display>
            <source>
                <name>Core 4 Sample Database (VCat)</name>
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        <stylePeriodSet>
            <display>Medieval</display>
            <stylePeriod vocab="AAT" refid="300020756">Medieval</stylePeriod>
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        <subjectSet>
            <display>allegorical; animals; cycles or series; decorative arts; literary or legendary; plants; Animals, Mythical; Hunting in art; Unicorns; botanical studies; flowery mead; flowery mede; Mediaeval gardens; Middle Ages</display>
            <notes/>
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            </subject>
            <subject>
                <term type="iconographicTopic" vocab="LCSAF" refid="sh 85139671">Unicorns</term>
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            <subject>
                <term type="iconographicTopic" vocab="LCSAF" refid="sh 85063138">Hunting in art</term>
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            <display>tapestry (process)</display>
            <notes/>
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            <display>The Hunt of the Unicorn </display>
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            <title type="repository" pref="false" xml:lang="en">Unicorn Tapestries [series]</title>
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        <worktypeSet>
            <display>furnishings; wall hangings; tapestries</display>
            <worktype vocab="AAT" refid="300205002">tapestry (wall hanging)</worktype>
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            <description>Three of the seven tapestries are visible in this view.</description>
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        <measurementsSet>
            <display>18 MB</display>
            <notes/>
            <measurements/>
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        <rightsSet>
            <display>undetermined</display>
            <rights/>
        </rightsSet>
        <sourceSet>
            <display>Metropolitan Museum of Art [website]; http://www.metmuseum.org</display>
            <source>
                <name/>
                <refid type="URI">http://www.metmuseum.org</refid>
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        <subjectSet>
            <display>Art museums; exhibitions; gallery; stained glass windows; beamed ceiling</display>
            <notes/>
            <subject>
                <term type="builtworkPlace" vocab="LCSAF" refid="sh 85008026">Art museums</term>
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            <display>digital imaging</display>
            <notes/>
            <technique/>
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            <display>Installation view of the Unicorn Tapestries at The Cloisters</display>
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            <display>digital image</display>
            <notes/>
            <worktype/>
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