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Publisher: Penguin Books

Author: Tracy Chevalier

ISBN: 9780452285453

Fiction, Historical

The Lady and the Unicorn by
Tracy Chevalier

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$ 400.00 mxn

The Lady and the Unicorn by

Tracy Chevalier

Reviews

"Tracy Chevalier's approach to fiction is so methodical that she threatens to turn writing about art into science."

The New York Times

Summary

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 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 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.

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