{"id":192,"date":"2015-02-26T01:50:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T20:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/?p=192"},"modified":"2025-05-22T16:49:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T20:49:00","slug":"sight-and-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/sight-and-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sight&#8221; and &#8220;Hearing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The six tapestries within The Lady and the Unicorn series, on display in the Mus\u00e9e National du Moyen \u00c2ge (Mus\u00e9e de Cluny), show scenes related to the five senses, within a repeated tableau of both a maiden and a lion alongside the horned creature. These reproductions of two of the tapestries depict the senses of sight and hearing. Displayed with specific heraldic pennants and armor, art historians have developed and debated several theories related to the commissioners and owners of the tapestry series.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/olio00000003502-UnicornTapestries-cover-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"787\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/olio00000003502-UnicornTapestries-cover-1.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Sight&quot; and &quot;Hearing&quot; The Unicorn Tapestries Adolfo Salvatore Cavallo New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005 Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design\" class=\"wp-image-391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/olio00000003502-UnicornTapestries-cover-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/olio00000003502-UnicornTapestries-cover-1-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/olio00000003502-UnicornTapestries-cover-1-100x131.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/olio00000003502-UnicornTapestries-cover-1-150x197.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/olio00000003502-UnicornTapestries-cover-1-200x262.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/olio00000003502-UnicornTapestries-cover-1-300x394.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/olio00000003502-UnicornTapestries-cover-1-450x590.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Sight&#8221; and &#8220;Hearing&#8221;<br> <em>The Unicorn Tapestries<\/em><br> Adolfo Salvatore Cavallo<br> New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005<br> Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The six tapestries within The Lady and the Unicorn series, on display in the Mus\u00e9e National du Moyen \u00c2ge (Mus\u00e9e de Cluny), show scenes related to the five senses, within a repeated tableau of both a maiden and a lion alongside the horned creature. These reproductions of two of the tapestries depict the senses of <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/sight-and-hearing\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  &#8220;Sight&#8221; and &#8220;Hearing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medieval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}