Captive Unicorn tapestry, 21st century,
Reproduction of the Metropolitan Museum, 137.5 x 94 x1 cm. The
Original from the 15th century on display at the Metropolitan Museum
In New York. The Captive Unicorn, the seventh of the seven tapestries of
The Unicorn Hunt, was woven in Holland between 1495
and 1505. In the Middle Ages, this mythological animal was considered the
purity symbol. The gold chain that ties him to a pomegranate tree means
marriage and fertility.