Post by pauldaleroberts on Dec 29, 2023 6:15:52 GMT
Mercury_Moon_Magazine_💧_A_Unicorn's_Horn
by: Wish Fire
Unicorn gods
angels
kings
queens
saints
goddesses
Mercury_Moon_Magazine_💧_A_Unicorn's_Horn
@jimbeattie18
Storm over a Lavender Field, Provence
Antony Zacharias photography.
www.twitter.com/JimBeattie18/status/1740336757210779769
The earliest written description of any unicorn or it's horn is attributed to Ctesias in 400 BCE.
www.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1739526631985746106
Mercury_Moon_Magazine_💧_A_Unicorn's_Horn
A true legendary creature that has been described by many eye-witness accounts since antiquity, as a "beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from it's forehead."
In Europe, the literature and art folklore, includes many aspects of the unicorn. The most popular formulation has been a white horse-like or goat-like animal with a long straight horn and "spiralling grooves, cloven hooves, and sometimes a goat's beard." In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, it was commonly described as an extremely wild woodland creature, a symbol of purity and grace, which could be captured only by a virgin. *wiki
According to the encyclopedias, this horn was described as having a supreme power to render poisoned water pure and to heal almost any known sickness. In medieval and Renaissance times- the tusk of the narwhal was sometimes sold as a unicorn horn, due to it's popularity and appeal to many, especially spiritually.
Mercury_Moon_Magazine_💧_A_Unicorn's_Horn
February Lace
Vasily Khudyakov
b. 1983
www.twitter.com/WilhelmGustloff/status/1740207723860648447
Vincent van Gogh
@vangoghartist
Swift, 1887
www.twitter.com/winterversace/status/1740592029049168259
Mercury_Moon_Magazine_💧_A_Unicorn's_Horn
13th-century French authors, such as Thibaut of Champagne and Richard de Fournival- claimed that the lover is attracted to his lady as the unicorn is to the virgin.
The magnetism of the unicorn became so widespread that some came to rebuke the image, begin criticizing it instead as a demonic being, while even beginning to represent death too, even so- it does represent death, as the Golden Legend explains.
It was taboo as they begin to show signs of many spiraling meanings and values upon further insightfulness. Unicorns that were once very favored in religious art almost entirely disappeared after they were condemned by Molanus.
Joannes Molanus (1533–1585)
A catholic theologian who speculated their devious nature.
The Undergrowth in the Forest of Saint-Germain, 1882
www.twitter.com/artistmonet/status/1740402012250849593
Mercury_Moon_Magazine_💧_A_Unicorn's_Horn
@nekoko480
エチュードの話題沸騰中のかわいいアイシャドウ買ってみた！プレイカラーアイズミニ レジェンダリーチェリー🍒
パレットを開けた時のピンク×ハート×チェリーもかわいい！
Translated from Japanese by google
I bought Etude's cute eyeshadow that is becoming a hot topic! Play Color Eyes Mini Legendary Cherry 🍒
The pink x heart x cherry color when you open the palette is also cute!
www.twitter.com/nekoko480/status/1740341747639787821
Mercury_Moon_Magazine_💧_A_Unicorn's_Horn
Entrapment-
The Unicorn is in Captivity, one of The Hunt of the Unicorn tapestries, c. 1495–1505, The Cloisters
Sight, from the La Dame à la licorne tapestry set, c. 1500 (Musée de Cluny, Paris).
One traditional method of hunting unicorns involved entrapment by a virgin.
In one of his notebooks Leonardo da Vinci wrote:
"The unicorn, through its intemperance and not knowing how to control itself, for the love it bears to fair maidens forgets its ferocity and wildness; and laying aside all fear it will go up to a seated damsel and go to sleep in her lap, and thus the hunters take it."
The famous late Gothic series of seven tapestry hangings The Hunt of the Unicorn are a high point in European tapestry manufacture. The tapestries are in the Cloisters division of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Mercury_Moon_Magazine_💧_A_Unicorn's_Horn
Ivan Shishkin
@artistshishkin
Winter in a forest (Rime) wikiart.org/en/ivan-shishkin/winter-in-a-forest-rime-1877
Another famous set of six tapestries of Dame à la licorne ("Lady with the unicorn") in the Musée de Cluny, Paris, were also woven in the Southern Netherlands before 1500, and show the five senses (the gateways to temptation) and finally Love ("A mon seul desir" the legend reads), with unicorns featured in each piece. Facsimiles of these unicorn tapestries were woven for permanent display in Stirling Castle, Scotland, to take the place of a set recorded in the castle in a 16th-century inventory.
@impression_ists
Wassily Kandinsky, Forest Edge
www.twitter.com/impression_ists/status/1740242036077539561
Angel Gabriel is shown blowing a horn, as hounds chase the unicorn into the Virgin's arms, and a little Christ Child descends on rays of light from God the Father. The Council of Trent finally banned this too, somewhat overelaborated depiction on the grounds of realism...(as no one now believes the unicorn to be a real animal.)
Well, it once was thought to be real...
@olgatuleninova
Eugène Jansson (Swedish, 1862 - 1915)
Evening, 1894
www.twitter.com/olgatuleninova/status/1740446597480398992
Claude Monet
@artistmonet
Irises 3, 1917 botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11129
Drake and 21 Savage were the only rappers to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 every single week this year.
www.twitter.com/DrakeDirect_/status/1740385139086287239
www.twitter.com/Best_ArtGallery/status/1740518005090758770
@best_ArtGallery
Rene Magritte - The evening gown
by: Wish Fire
Unicorn gods
angels
kings
queens
saints
goddesses
Mercury_Moon_Magazine_💧_A_Unicorn's_Horn
@jimbeattie18
Storm over a Lavender Field, Provence
Antony Zacharias photography.
www.twitter.com/JimBeattie18/status/1740336757210779769
The earliest written description of any unicorn or it's horn is attributed to Ctesias in 400 BCE.
www.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1739526631985746106
Mercury_Moon_Magazine_💧_A_Unicorn's_Horn
A true legendary creature that has been described by many eye-witness accounts since antiquity, as a "beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from it's forehead."
In Europe, the literature and art folklore, includes many aspects of the unicorn. The most popular formulation has been a white horse-like or goat-like animal with a long straight horn and "spiralling grooves, cloven hooves, and sometimes a goat's beard." In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, it was commonly described as an extremely wild woodland creature, a symbol of purity and grace, which could be captured only by a virgin. *wiki
According to the encyclopedias, this horn was described as having a supreme power to render poisoned water pure and to heal almost any known sickness. In medieval and Renaissance times- the tusk of the narwhal was sometimes sold as a unicorn horn, due to it's popularity and appeal to many, especially spiritually.
Mercury_Moon_Magazine_💧_A_Unicorn's_Horn
February Lace
Vasily Khudyakov
b. 1983
www.twitter.com/WilhelmGustloff/status/1740207723860648447
Vincent van Gogh
@vangoghartist
Swift, 1887
www.twitter.com/winterversace/status/1740592029049168259
Mercury_Moon_Magazine_💧_A_Unicorn's_Horn
13th-century French authors, such as Thibaut of Champagne and Richard de Fournival- claimed that the lover is attracted to his lady as the unicorn is to the virgin.
The magnetism of the unicorn became so widespread that some came to rebuke the image, begin criticizing it instead as a demonic being, while even beginning to represent death too, even so- it does represent death, as the Golden Legend explains.
It was taboo as they begin to show signs of many spiraling meanings and values upon further insightfulness. Unicorns that were once very favored in religious art almost entirely disappeared after they were condemned by Molanus.
Joannes Molanus (1533–1585)
A catholic theologian who speculated their devious nature.
The Undergrowth in the Forest of Saint-Germain, 1882
www.twitter.com/artistmonet/status/1740402012250849593
Mercury_Moon_Magazine_💧_A_Unicorn's_Horn
@nekoko480
エチュードの話題沸騰中のかわいいアイシャドウ買ってみた！プレイカラーアイズミニ レジェンダリーチェリー🍒
パレットを開けた時のピンク×ハート×チェリーもかわいい！
Translated from Japanese by google
I bought Etude's cute eyeshadow that is becoming a hot topic! Play Color Eyes Mini Legendary Cherry 🍒
The pink x heart x cherry color when you open the palette is also cute!
www.twitter.com/nekoko480/status/1740341747639787821
Mercury_Moon_Magazine_💧_A_Unicorn's_Horn
Entrapment-
The Unicorn is in Captivity, one of The Hunt of the Unicorn tapestries, c. 1495–1505, The Cloisters
Sight, from the La Dame à la licorne tapestry set, c. 1500 (Musée de Cluny, Paris).
One traditional method of hunting unicorns involved entrapment by a virgin.
In one of his notebooks Leonardo da Vinci wrote:
"The unicorn, through its intemperance and not knowing how to control itself, for the love it bears to fair maidens forgets its ferocity and wildness; and laying aside all fear it will go up to a seated damsel and go to sleep in her lap, and thus the hunters take it."
The famous late Gothic series of seven tapestry hangings The Hunt of the Unicorn are a high point in European tapestry manufacture. The tapestries are in the Cloisters division of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Mercury_Moon_Magazine_💧_A_Unicorn's_Horn
Ivan Shishkin
@artistshishkin
Winter in a forest (Rime) wikiart.org/en/ivan-shishkin/winter-in-a-forest-rime-1877
Another famous set of six tapestries of Dame à la licorne ("Lady with the unicorn") in the Musée de Cluny, Paris, were also woven in the Southern Netherlands before 1500, and show the five senses (the gateways to temptation) and finally Love ("A mon seul desir" the legend reads), with unicorns featured in each piece. Facsimiles of these unicorn tapestries were woven for permanent display in Stirling Castle, Scotland, to take the place of a set recorded in the castle in a 16th-century inventory.
@impression_ists
Wassily Kandinsky, Forest Edge
www.twitter.com/impression_ists/status/1740242036077539561
Angel Gabriel is shown blowing a horn, as hounds chase the unicorn into the Virgin's arms, and a little Christ Child descends on rays of light from God the Father. The Council of Trent finally banned this too, somewhat overelaborated depiction on the grounds of realism...(as no one now believes the unicorn to be a real animal.)
Well, it once was thought to be real...
@olgatuleninova
Eugène Jansson (Swedish, 1862 - 1915)
Evening, 1894
www.twitter.com/olgatuleninova/status/1740446597480398992
Claude Monet
@artistmonet
Irises 3, 1917 botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11129
Drake and 21 Savage were the only rappers to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 every single week this year.
www.twitter.com/DrakeDirect_/status/1740385139086287239
www.twitter.com/Best_ArtGallery/status/1740518005090758770
@best_ArtGallery
Rene Magritte - The evening gown