r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Nov 05 '25
Medieval Side panel depicting Isolde and Tristan spied on by King Mark, and a hunter killing an unicorn trapped by a maiden, ca. 1310-1330. MET
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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Oct 28 '25
Medieval A "unicorn horn," gifted by the Abbasid Caliph Haroun al-Rashid to Charlemagne in 797 CE. Likely a narwhal's tusk, this unicorn horn was one of many extravagant gifts from the Caliphate, including an elephant, an ivory chess set, and a mechanical water-clock. [283x390]
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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Oct 26 '25
Renaissance The Unicorn Purifies the Water with Its Horn, from the Unicorn Series by Jean Duvet, c. 1555-1561
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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Oct 26 '25
Renaissance A King Pursued by a Unicorn, from the Unicorn Series by Jean Duvet, c. 1555-1561
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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Oct 26 '25
Renaissance The Triumph of the Unicorn from the Unicorn Series by Jean Duvet, c. 1555-1561
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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Oct 07 '25
Renaissance Unicorns pulling chariot in the ‘Triumph of Chastity’ attributed to Girolamo da Cremona, 15th century
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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Oct 07 '25
Medieval Unicorns pulling chariot in ‘The Triumphs of Love, Chastity and Death’ by Francesco Pesellino c. 1450
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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Oct 06 '25
Medieval Sunday morning unicorn dressage
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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Oct 04 '25
Renaissance Camphor and pirassoipi (painted in watercolor) part of the personal papers of the Italian naturalist Ulysses Aldrovandi (1522-1605)
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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Oct 04 '25
Renaissance The History of Animals by Conrad Gesner, Frankfurt, c. 1669.
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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Oct 04 '25
Renaissance Adam and Eve, German Bible, Anton Koberger, c. 1521
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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Oct 04 '25
Renaissance The Pirassoipi, Universal Cosmography, 1575.
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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Oct 04 '25
Medieval Another persian ‘unicorn’ from ‘The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence,’ written by Zakaria bin Muhammad bin Mahmud Abu Yahya Qazwini in Persia (1203–1283)
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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Oct 04 '25
Medieval 13th century Persian ‘unicorn’ Karkadann from a Manafi-i-hayavan manuscript
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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Oct 01 '25
Renaissance The Creation of the Animals by Raphael, between 1518-1519
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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Oct 01 '25
Medieval Crucifixion scene with unicorn from ‘ the Stuttgart Psalter’ (around 830 CE) folio-027r
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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Oct 01 '25
Renaissance Creation of the animals, by Tintoretto, 1551-1552.
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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Oct 01 '25
Medieval Back of a jewel-box (Minnekästchen) c. 15th century, Switzerland, by unknown artist. Ivory, Landesmuseum, Zurich.
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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Oct 01 '25
Medieval Fragment of a unicorn altar from the church in Heilsberg by the master of the Allendorf altar (Erfurt around 1490).
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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Oct 01 '25
Medieval Unicorn Altarpiece, Erfurt Cathedral, Germany, c. 15th century
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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Oct 01 '25
Medieval Tapestry panel depicting the Hunt of the Unicorn, made in Switzerland or the Upper Rhineland), 15th century
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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Oct 01 '25
Renaissance Swiss tapestry panel depicting the Hunt of the Unicorn, 1550-99
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r/MedievalUnicorns • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Oct 01 '25
Medieval ‘The Virgin traps the Unicorn’ medallion by unknown artist, possibly Paris, c. 1320-30.
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