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The 10 most beautiful tapestries
By Jason Farago
12 August 2014
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View image of The Apocalypse Tapestry, 1377–1382 (Credit: Hemis/Alamy)
View image of The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, circa 1440–50 (Credit: Interfoto/Alamy)
View image of The Lady with the Unicorn, late 15th Century (Credit: Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images)
View image of The Unicorn Tapestries, circa 1500 (Credit: Heritage Image Partnership Ltd /Alamy)
View image of The Rape of Helen, early 17th Century (Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
View image of The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, early 18th Century (Credit: Galerie des Gobelins)
View image of Holy Grail Tapestries, 1898–99 (Credit: Sir Edward Burne-Jones/William Morris/John Henry Dearle)
View image of We Are Living on a Star, 1958
View image of Musa, 2009 (Credit: Oliver Berg/AFP/Getty Images)
View image of Congregation, 2014 (Credit: Kiki Smith)