Lady and the Unicorn

For sharp eyed viewers of the Harry Potter movies, you might notice that the walls of the Gryffindor common room are covered in a bright red tapestry prominently featuring several women, and unicorns. what viewers may not know, is that it is based on a real set of tapestries from around 1500 called "the Lady and the Unicorn"
The family that commissioned it were from Lyon, France it is not known who exactly designed it, yet it is considered by some to be the Mona Lisa of the medieval era, because of it's complexity and beauty. It consists of 6 panels, each representing the five senses, Taste, Touch, Sight, Sound, Scent, and the sixth sense Desire.
It features many aspects of medieval mythology and symbolism, such as the unicorn, which may have represented courtly love. as well as s Fox, Rabbit, Genet, falcon and Heron which represent nobility, (just to name a few.)
The panels were only recovered in 1814 in Boussac Castle in Creuse and became position of the French Government in 1882

Works Cited
- Delaney, Brigid. “Lady and the Unicorn: Mona Lisa of the Middle Ages Weaves a New Spell.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 13 Feb. 2018, www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/feb/13/lady-and-the-unicorn-mona-lisa-of-the-middle-ages-weaves-a-new-spell. 
“- The ‘Mona Lisa’ of Medieval Art.” Medievalists.net, 14 Apr. 2018, www.medievalists.net/2017/04/mona-lisa-medieval-art/.