The Met Store Pins & Brooches*Unicorn Brooch

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This fanciful unicorn evokes the mythological creature in The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (1495–1505), a remarkable French and South Netherlandish textile at The Met Cloisters. The Museum’s beloved medieval masterwork may have been created as a single image, though it’s considered one of the seven so-called Unicorn Tapestries, which are among the most impressive extant artworks from the late Middle Ages. The unicorn likely signifies tamed love, as the pomegranate tree to which it’s loosely tethered symbolizes marriage and fertility.

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