![]() ![]() Ill-prepared for temptation and seduction, he and his family are consumed by the project and by their dealings with the full-blooded painter from Paris. There, master-weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has on finishing the tapestries - his finest, most intricate work - on time for his exacting French client. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the house - mother and daughter, servant and lady-in-waiting - before taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. They appear to portray a woman's seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown - until now. ![]() A set of bewitching medieval tapestries hangs today in a protected chamber in Paris. ![]()
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