llustrations from Conrad Gesner’s Historiae Animalium published 1551-1558. Considered to be the first to be the first modern zoological work.
unicorn_16 (by phoenixxx9000)
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The Unicorn Is Attacked
1495–1505
South Netherlandish
Wool warp with wool, silk, silver, and gilt weftsThe Met
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Chris Lavers
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La tenture de saint Etienne (Wall Hanging of St Stephen), Brussels, ca 1500, wool and silk, 1,68 x 3,59 m, Musée de Cluny, Paris
Scene VIII: The Body of St Stephen is exposed to the beasts.
Et encore la Licorne….
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narwhal
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