96. 女士和独角兽,我唯一的愿望`The Lady and the Unicorn, To my only Desire by Old Master 高清作品[15%]

AF-The Lady and the Unicorn, To my only Desire

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女士和独角兽,我唯一的愿望-老主人

-The Lady and the Unicorn is the modern title given to a series of six tapestries created in the style of mille-fleurs (meaning: \"thousand flowers\") and woven in Flanders from wool and silk, from designs (\"cartoons\") drawn in Paris around 1500.
The lady stands in front of a tent, across the top of which is inscribed her motto \"À Mon Seul Désir\", one of the deliberately obscure, highly crafted and elegant mottos, often alluding to courtly love, adopted by the nobility during the age of chivalry.It is variously interpretable as \"to my only/sole desire\", \"according to my desire alone\"; \"by my will alone\", \"love desires only beauty of soul\", \"to calm passion\". Her maidservant stands to the right, holding open a chest. The lady is placing the necklace she wears in the other tapestries into the chest. To her left is a low bench with a dog, possibly a Maltese sitting on a decorative pillow. It is the only tapestry in which she is seen to smile. The unicorn and the lion stand in their normal spots framing the lady while holding onto the pennants.