The Lady and the Unicorn

In 1934-1936 Raphael restored a female portrait “Lady with Unicorn.” Leonardo Da Vinci had painted this piece in the year 1505. Leonardo was a high renaissance painter and this picture is a high renaissance piece. The time period of when it was created and the idealized figure, clarity, and bright colors depict the type of renaissance piece. In the portrait a lady with long blonde hair, and blue eyes is holding a greenish colored unicorn in her lap, which gives the portrait its name. It was an oil

The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier is a story about an artist trying to make his break right before the emergence of the Renaissance in Paris. Nicolas Des Innocents who is not only an artist but a womanizer, gets commissioned to do a very big important job for a high ranking official. For a young artist like Nicolas this was huge deal. He arrives at the estate to meet with the master of the house. He is hired to design the tapestries for the large entertaining room. The man of the house

In this passage, the author intends to cite a highly detailed explanation about the Gothic world by first providing background information of it and then elaborating on it with specific examples such as ‘The lady with the Unicorn’ and ‘The North Portal of Chartres’. The writer effectively depicts the Gothic world in mainly two ways: comparing it with the medieval era and using luxurious vocabulary to describe the characteristics of sentimental courtly love. The author firstly uses words like

Raphael used Leonardo da Vinci’s image of the Mona Lisa as the basis for the woman in his portrait “Lady with a Unicorn”, but while Raphael’s successful attempt at imitating da Vinci’s technique and style is noticeable, Raphael’s “Lady with a Unicorn” and da Vinci’s Louvre “Mona Lisa” demonstrate the difference between the artist’s style. Leonardo da Vinci used an artistic style while painting known as sfumato, which is “the technique of allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another

Reflection of the Tapestries Reading the lady and the unicorn by Chevalier, I became aware of a series of six tapestries at Musee Cluny woven in the 15th century (Chevalier 249). These tapestries are remarkable in both content and quality. The series of six tapestries appear mysterious to all who view them, myself included. The first five “suggestion of the five sense” (Chevalier 37), sight, sound, taste, smell and finally touch. These five tapestries culminate quintessentially into a sixth tapestry

Date:23/3/15 Title of the story: The Last Unicorn Plot: Point of View: Character: The characters in this story are numerous and each of the character has different personalities. The first character is The Unicorn which then became Lady Amalthea. The Unicorn is the protagonist in the story. Both The Unicorn and Lady Amalthea is a beautiful creature till anyone who sees them

when they think of the unicorn, picture something out of a child’s fantasy; something that can not and has not existed. However, as scientists look back on cultures around the world, they find something very different. They find evidence from countries far apart, that the unicorn was extraordinarily popular, and that many believed in its existence (“Myth and Origin”). Though specific details of its appearance and/or behavior have differed, many aspects about unicorns in different cultures

“The unicorn stood still at the edge of the forest and said aloud, ‘I am the only unicorn there is.’ They were the first words she had spoken, even to herself, in more than a hundred years.” The Last Unicorn is the story of a unicorn’s mystical quest to search for her people. Along her adventure she’s joined by companions, Schmendrick the magician and Molly Grue, who have their own wishes and desires. They hear of stories that King Haggard and the Red Bull drove them away, leading them to investigate

How did the unicorn help redeem her kind? Redemption in history has always had to pay a price. Therefore, without sacrifice there is no redemption. In this novel, The Last Unicorn by Peter .S. Beagle, the unicorn sacrificed her life to redeem the other unicorns. She knew the fate of all unicorns rested at her hands as she did the right thing to sacrifice everything that she had, just to save her fellow unicorns. Thus, with the help of friendship, courage and magic

is unexpressed by many fairy tales and stories about journeys. This story was written in the tale of a unicorn who believes she is the last of her kind and overlooks a long journey to discover what happened to the others. In Peter S. Beagle’s novel, The Last Unicorn, heroes are sent out into the world to overlook specific tasks but have to change to do so. The unicorn resembles the type of unicorn described in the novel. Before facing a vulgar reality, she never had to worry about a thing. Her world