The unicorn's sage-like origins Ancient depictions of the mythical creature date back to the Bronze Age. A bovine animal with one long horn was commonly featured on seals used by the Indus Valley ...

What we are seeing here is known as the "entrapment of the unicorn" — a popular narrative in medieval art. According to ... a woman is looking at the painting, we see over her shoulder and ...

This virginal association continued throughout art history. In Raphael's "Portrait of a Young Woman with a Unicorn" (1505-1506), a young lady poses for the painter holding a small unicorn as if it ...