The Unicorn Defends Himself

05/11/2022 16:57

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The Unicorn Defends Himself

Selkie's Autumn collection for 2022 aptly title Highland Fling and Rose & Crown , features a number of lovely prints, but one that stole my heart even while watching the livestreamed preview was the "The Unicorn Defends Himself." This print is from a series of tapestries created in the Netherlands circa 1495-1505. The series depicts the hunt, capture, and death of a unicorn. While many scholars have hypothesized that the panels are symbolic representations of both Christ's passion for mankind and/or Man's passion for Woman, I think both are bunk. To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a tapestry is just a tapestry. My interpretation is that we...

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