The Lady and the Unicorn

Historian article

By Damien Dessane, published 1st May 2026

Unravelling the symbolic threads of sixteenth-century tapestries

As well as being admired for their aesthetic beauty, medieval and early modern tapestries often conveyed deeper symbolic meanings. Here Damien Dessane examines a famous sixteenth century tapestry and reveals the insights it provides into Anglo-French relations in that period and into the increasing agency of some important women...

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