the lady and the unicorn by tracy chevalier

An extraordinary story exquisitely told, Tracy Chevalieras The Lady and the Unicorn weaves history and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry that rivals in grace and grandeur the masterpiece that inspired it. Like the many different strands of wool and silk that were woven together into one cloth, the lives and fates of these people entwine in complex patterns, crisscrossing as they seek desires sensual and spiritual, temporal and eternal. Tracy Chevalier takes readers back to the tapestriesa creation, giving life to the men who designed and made them, as well as the wives, daughters, and servants who exercised subtle (and not so subtle) influences over their men. Little is known about them except that they were woven toward the end of the fifteenth century and bear the coat of arms of a wealthy family from Lyons. In each, an elegant lady and a unicorn stand or sit on an island of grass surrounded by a rich background of animals and flowers. Regardless of the interpretation of the masterpieces, one is ready to buy the ticket for the Musée National du Moyen Age (aka Cluny Museum), where the six tapestries hung.Bewitching art experts and enthusiasts alike for centuries, the Lady and the Unicorn tapestries hang today in the Cluny Museum in Paris.

Also, the tapestries could be the six senses, and even they were addressed like that (Lady Taste, Lady Smell, and such). However, the interpretation might be literal and sexual since the tapestries might mean the courting process that culminates with intercourse. All of her choices, all in one, wound together. Tracy Chevalier enlightens her readers in art and literature with The Lady and the Unicorn. She explains how the tapestries are about the whole of a woman’s life, its beginning and its end. Reading this specific part has you pondering how, after 600 years, violence keeps on plaguing many households. How marriage was an economic exchange of goods, including the daughter, and how speaking back to the head of the house might lead to physical aggression. Tracy Chevalieras The Lady and the Unicorn weaves history and fiction into a beautiful. From the nobility to the blue-collar workers, the reader can perceive multiple normalized aggressions. Tracy Chevalier takes readers back to the tapestriesa creation. S et back in the 1400s, The Lady and the Unicorn exhibits, with great detail, the patriarchal society that drove every aspect of life.

The lady and the unicorn by tracy chevalier