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Title:The Hunt of the Unicorn as an Allegory of the Passion
Culture/Nationality:Netherlandish
Style:Late Gothic, Renaissance
Date:c. 1495-1505
Location:Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Medium:wool warp; silk, silver, and gilt wefts
Dimensions:368 x 389 cm
The Unicorn at Bay
 
The Unicorn at Bay
 
The Unicorn at Bay, hunter with inscribed scabbard
 
The Unicorn at Bay, showing hunters and hounds in the background
 
The Unicorn at Bay, showing the unicorn goring a hound
 
The Unicorn is Found
 
The Unicorn Is Found, showing unicorn dipping its horn in to the stream
 
The Unicorn is Killed
 
The Unicorn is Killed and Brought to the Castle
 
The Unicorn is Killed, showing the castle of the host of the hunt
 
The Unicorn is Killed, showing the hunters killing the unicorn
 
The Unicorn is Found