Unicorn art, posters, images

 Many many art prints and posters have been made for the mythological creature known as the Unicorn. Widely known as a horse with a horn traditionally original art showed unicorns also with billy goat beard and a lion's tail.

Unicorns in the Bible The translators of the Authorized King James Version of the Bible (1611) employed unicorn to translate re'em, providing a recognizable animal that was proverbial for its un-tamable nature. more

In one of his notebooks Leonardo da Vinci wrote about the unicorn:

"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."

Unicorn Tapestries The Hunt of the Unicorn is a series of seven tapestries dating from 1495–1505.