Talende dyr på tavse tæpper *)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7146/pl.v16i1.134130Abstract
»The Lady and the Unicorn« (The Cluny Museum Paris) is a series of 6 tapestries from the late Middle Ages, so called »millefleurs« (thousand flowers) among which small animals of the most varied kinds appear. Today the series is interpreted as a secular allegory of the five senses, while the 6th tapestry has to be explained as an introduction or conclusion to the far-fetched message. The paper tries to make out the main content of the Lady and her two aides-decamp, the lion and the unicorn, on one of the tapestries. By the aid of the Bestiaries from the period the iconographical meaning of all the animals, big as well as small, is stated. The informations form a natural and meaningful, but strongly religious whole, and they are elucidated by generally available texts of the time.
*) The paper is an abstract of a chapter in my book: The lady and Unicorn - an iconographical reappraisal (in publishing).
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