Unicorn: The Mythical Beast in Art
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Press images
Attributed to Dario di Giovanni, previously Master of the Judgment of Paris or the Master of the Stories of Helen
Virgin with Unicorn (Portrait of Caterina Corner as Allegory of Chastity), ca. 1467–68
Tempera and pressed brocade on wood, 100 x 90 cm
Keresztény Múzeum / Christian Museum, Esztergom
Keresztény Múzeum / Christian Museum, Esztergom
© Photo: Attila Mudrák
Marie Cécile Thijs
Unicorn, 2012
from the series Horses
from the series Horses
Inkjet print (2025) on fine-art baryta paper, mounted on dibond with plexiglass in black wooden frame, 120 × 150 cm
© Marie Cécile Thijs, courtesy SmithDavidson Gallery
Hans Reisinger, caster
Leaping Unicorn, Augsburg before 1589
Yellow brass, 36.7 × 42.6 × 18 cm
Grünes Gewölbe, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Grünes Gewölbe, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Maerten de Vos
Unicorn, 1572
Oil on oak wood, 137 × 136.5 cm
Staatliche Schlösser, Gärten und Kunstsammlungen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwerin
Staatliche Schlösser, Gärten und Kunstsammlungen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwerin
© Photo: Ulrich Pfeuffer
Armand Point
The Princess and the Unicorn, 1896
Pencil and pastel on paper, 90 × 71 cm
Lucile Audouy, Paris
Lucile Audouy, Paris
Workshop of the Flammschweiflöwe (Nuremberg)
Aquamanile in the Form of a Unicorn, first quarter of the fourteenth century
Bronze, 28.5 × 35 × 10.5 cm
Musée de Cluny—musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris
Musée de Cluny—musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris
© Photo: bpk/GrandPalaisRmn/Gérard Blot
Arnold Böcklin
The Silence of the Forest, 1885
Wood, 73 × 59 cm
Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, Posen
Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, Posen
Angela Hampel
Female Nude on Unicorn, 1988
Lithograph, 38 × 40 cm
Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
Gustave Moreau
Woman and Unicorn, undated
Oil on canvas, 79.4 × 65 cm
Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris
Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris
© bpk/GrandPalaisRmn/Sylvie Chan-Liat
Flemish or Lower Saxon (?)
Virgin with Unicorn at the Spring and Groups of Hunters, late fifteenth century (?)
Warp and weft threads, wool, 96 × 557 cm
Evangelische St. Gotthardt- und Christuskirchengemeinde, Brandenburg an der Havel
Evangelische St. Gotthardt- und Christuskirchengemeinde, Brandenburg an der Havel
René Magritte
The Meteor, 1964
Oil on canvas, 54.6 × 46 cm
Private collection
Private collection
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet (Master of the Housebook)
Wild Man on a Unicorn, 1473–77
Drypoint, 9.3 × 8.4 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Copy after Titian
Orpheus Charming the Wild Animals, 1562–1601
Oil on canvas, 131.5 × 104.5 cm
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Olaf Nicolai
La Lotta, 2006
Prepared fur, horn, polyester, electric heating, temperature control, 153 × 215 × 155 cm
Private collection
Private collection
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
Italian (Veneto)
Virgin with Unicorn, ca. 1510
Oil on canvas, 28 × 39 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
