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Loading... The Lady and the Unicorn (original 2003; edition 2004)by Tracy Chevalier (Author)
Work InformationThe Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier (2003)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. "The unicorn's horn is a magical thing...with special powers. They say that if a unicorn dips his horn into a poisoned will the water will become pure again. He can make other things pure again." While the description of the artistic process of creating tapestries was interesting, the bawdy backstory was a bit distracting. If you enjoy books about art or about live in the middle ages, this may be a book to add to your tbr. La dama y el unicornio Tracy Chevalier Publicado: 2003 | 207 páginas Novela Histórico Los tapices de La dama y el unicornio han fascinado a expertos y aficionados durante siglos. En cada uno de ellos, una elegante mujer y el mÃtico animal se encuentran en un islote de hierba rodeado de flores. Pero poco más se sabe sobre ellos… El seductor Nicolas des Innocents ha recibido el encargo del noble parisino Jean Le Viste de diseñar unos tapices para su gran salón. Mientras Nicolas mide las paredes, conoce a la hermosa hija del noble y nace entre los dos una pasión imposible para la época. Tracy Chevalier lleva a los lectores al momento de la creación de esta obra de arte, dando vida a los hombres que la diseñaron y crearon, y a las mujeres que influyeron en ellos. La historia y la ficción se entrelazan en un tapiz literario de ambiciones, deseos y hechizo artÃstico que rivaliza en belleza con la obra que lo inspiró. Tracy Chevalier's tale of artistic creation and late-medieval amours, The Lady and the Unicorn is a subtle study in social power and the conflicts between love and duty. Nicolas des Innocents has been commissioned by the Parisian nobleman Jean Le Viste to design a series of large tapestries for his great hall (in real life, the famous Lady and the Unicorn cycle, now in Paris's Musee National du Moyen-Age Thermes de Cluny). While Nicolas is measuring the walls, he meets a beautiful girl who turns out to be Jean Le Viste's daughter. Their passion is impossible for their world--so forbidden, given their class differences, that its only avenue of expression turns out to be those magnificent tapestries. The historical evidence on which this story is based is slight enough to allow the full play of Chevalier's imagination in this cleverly woven tale. no reviews | add a review
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HTML:A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalierâ??s answer to the mystery behind one of the art worldâ??s great masterpiecesâ??a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknownâ??until now. Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the houseâ??mother and daughter, servant, and lady-in-waitingâ??before taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven. There, master weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has to finish the tapestriesâ??his finest, most intricate workâ??on time for his exacting French client. The results change all their livesâ??lives that have been captured in the tapestries, for those who know where to look. In The Lady and the Unicorn, Tracy Chevalier weaves fact and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestryâ??an extraordinar No library descriptions found. |
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Things improved. I was interested in the weavers of Bruges who have to interpret Nicholas' design. The difficulties they encountered and the personalities involved got me interested. I wanted to know how the story would play out. It was a pity that at the end of the book, there was more scarcely credible under-the-table action.
The tapestries exists to this day. The story that Chevalier weaves is in no sense an account of its history. But it's an involving story, with just a few incredible plot details that somewhat spoilt the book for me. ( )