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The Lady and the Unicorn: À mon seul désir (Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris). The Lady and the Unicorn (French: La Dame à la licorne) is the modern title given to a series of six tapestries created in the style of mille-fleurs ("thousand flowers") and woven in Flanders from wool and silk, from designs ("cartoons") drawn in Paris around 1500. [1]
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Les Dames à la licorne ("the ladies with the unicorn") is a 1974 novel by the French writer René Barjavel and Irish astrologer Olenka de Veer. It is set in Ireland in the late 19th century and tells the story of five sisters who are connected to a medieval legend.
Moribi Murano (often miscredited as "Mami Sugino") directed the second movie, titled Maho no Shima e (ユニコ 魔法の島へ, To the Magic Island) in Japanese and Unico in the Island of Magic in English, which was released to Japanese theaters on July 16, 1983, five days before the release of the first Barefoot Gen movie, which used many of ...
The Lady is a 2011 British biographical film directed by Luc Besson, [6] starring Michelle Yeoh [7] as Aung San Suu Kyi and David Thewlis [8] as her late husband Michael Aris. [9] Yeoh called the film "a labour of love" but also confessed it had felt intimidating for her to play the Nobel laureate .
The tapestries of The Lady and the Unicorn were woven for Antoine Le Viste, perhaps in Brussels, Tournai or Bruges. They can be the work of the painter Jean Perréal, known as Jehan of Paris. The mysterious Lady is Mary Tudor, third wife of Louis XII and sister of Henry VIII, who was the queen of France from August to December 1514.
In 2003, a film based on the novel was released, receiving three Academy Award nominations in 2004, along with ten BAFTAs and two Golden Globes. Her 2013 novel, The Last Runaway , was honored with the Ohioana Book Award [ 11 ] and was chosen for the Richard and Judy Book Club for autumn 2013.
The Unicorns is an 1880s oil-on-canvas painting by Gustave Moreau, now in the Musée national Gustave Moreau. [1]It is freely inspired by The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries in the musée de Cluny [2] Moreau spoke of the painting and its subject as "an enchanted island with a gathering of women, solely of women giving the most precious pretext for all patterns of plastic art".