The Lady and the Unicorn
A Art History, Art, Fiction book. Warp threads are thicker than the weft, and made of a coarser wool as...
In her fourth novel (after Virgin Blue, Girl with a Pearl Earring, and Falling Angels), Tracy Chevalier returns to her most successful format, spinning a lush, rich back story behind a famous masterpiece about which little is known. While it compares favorably with her acclaimed masterpiece, Girl with a Pearl Earring, this beautifully imagined and boldly told novel stands proudly on its own merits. Chevalier's greatest strengths as a writer come from her keen ability to re-create a time and place, in this case 15th-century France and Belgium. She interweaves narratives of the painter who conceived the six famous...
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- Pages: 256 pages
- ISBN: 9780641697661 / 0
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Warp threads are thicker than the weft, and made of a coarser wool as well. I think of them as like wives. Their work is not obvious - all you can see are the ridges they make under the colorful weft threads. But if they weren't there, there would be no tapestry. Georges would unravel without me. Tracy Chevalier, The Lady and the Unicorn // I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are. Tracy Chevalier, The Lady and the Unicorn // I feel like a bird who has been wounded with an arrow and now cannot fly. Tracy Chevalier, The Lady and the Unicorn //
Jean Le Viste commissions painter Nicholas des Innocents to design six tapestries that will be hung in a grand hall within his magnificent Paris home. Jean is a conniving, deviously ambitious nobleman with a depressed wife and three daughters. The oldest daughter, Claude is beautiful and falls head over heals for Nicholas. Of course,... Threads of history and fiction interestingly woven together, creating colourful symbolism and story telling.I have always admired this tapestry and will surely revisit it with new eyes and wonder. What I learned from this book is I should never ever read anything by this author ever again. A friend of mine was enthralled by The Virgin Blue and requested I read it. Although I hated it I thought I'd possibly give The Lady and the Unicorn a chance since I love art history. Sadly, I cannot say I liked a single thing about this book....
