Unicorn: the mythical beast in art

Contents

Essays. The Existence of the Unseen: The Image and Meaning of the Unicorn in European Art / Michael Philipp ; A Strange Messenger of Fortune: The Chinese Unicorn Qilin / Adrien Bossard ; "And It Became For Us The Horn of Salvation": The Unicorn in Christian Art / Stefan Trinks ; When Unicorns Lived in Tapestries: The Mythical Beast as a Woven Motif / Béatrice de Chancel-Bardelot ; To Know and To Wonder: The Unicorn in Medieval and Modern Science / Barbara Drake Boehm ; Who Believes in Unicorns? The Mythical Beast in the Art of the Twentieth and Twenty-first centuries / Annabelle Ténèze -- Catalog of Exhibited Works / Michael Philipp with contributions by Béatrice de Chancel-Bardelot, Séverine Lepape, Valentina Plotnikova, Ortrud Westheider. Multifarious Forms: The Origin and Transformation of the Unicorn ; An Animal Among Animals: Illustrations for the Bible, Saints' Legends, and Myths ; From Annunciation to Resurrection: The Unicorn in Christian Iconography ; Eyewitnesses and Naturalists: The Unicorn in Travel Reports and Animal Lore ; A Legendary Antidote: The Unicorn in Medicine ; Defiant and Combative: The Unicorn Among the Wild People and in Battle with Animals and Men ; Precious, Rare, Astonishing: Showpiece of the Kunst- and Wunderkammer ; Intimate Companionship: The Unicorn and the Virgin ; Many Qualities, Many Meanings: The Unicorn as Symbol ; Appropriation, Identification, Utilization: The Unicorn in Art Since the Nineteenth Century -- Documentation. Across the Ages: Chronology of the Exhibited Works ; The Trail of the Unicorn: Two and a Half Millennia of Testimony from Natural History, Religion, Travel, and Literature / Compiled by Michael Philipp.