She even had JPEGs of the fancy medieval tapestries to prove it, with scenes of death by unicorn disembowelment and all. But they refused to listen. “I grew up around New York in the suburbs and ...

He even found his way back to those Hunt of the Unicorn tapestries he saw as a child: “I became interested in the specific medieval unicorn mythology, and then [those tapestries] quickly came to ...

There are dozens and dozens of them.” As she started delving deeper into the subject, Solberg made the connection between the legend of the unicorn from the bestiaries—illustrated medieval texts ...

In the artwork, the Archangel Gabriel drives a unicorn into a closed garden and into the lap of Mary. Heun explained that in the Middle Ages, there was the belief that a unicorn could only be ...

The unicorns in the new A24 film Death of a Unicorn (2025) have the majestic, elegant bearing you’d expect of the mythical creature—but with an extra ferocious and savage bite. It’s not a ...

The tapestry you just saw is one of seven in the Cloisters gallery. … of a unicorn, a creature that medieval viewers believed was real (perhaps partly based on reports of rhinos or other animals ...

In many ways, the dragon, the griffin, and the unicorn were the three mythical darlings of medieval Europe. They appeared again and again, in written words and in illustrations, but what did their ...

More goat-like overall, Scharfman described it as being most similar to medieval unicorn descriptions. "And if you really want to go back deeper, a lot of those accounts were based on animals off ...

Elliot is on board when he’s promised a cut of the profits, while daughter Ridley, horrified at the turn of events, is off in the library studying up on the renowned medieval Unicorn Tapestries ...

Obviously, the creature Marco Polo was describing was not a unicorn, but a rhinoceros. However, it's important to remember that, to the average medieval European, unicorns were not mythical ...