The Lady and The Unicorn - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• The tapestries are described in detail by the narrator of Rainer Maria Rilke's novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
• The Lady and the Unicorn is the title of a 1970 album by the English folk guitarist John Renbourn, comprising arrangements of early music. It shows the tapestry À Mon Seul Désir on its cover.
• These tapestries are also the central theme of the novels The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier and The Seventh Unicorn by Kelly Jones.
• A trilogy of historical novels by Pith Schure have come out under titles of the format La Licorne and.... In this richly illustrated work the tapestries come and go.
• Several of the tapestries can be seen hanging on the walls of the Gryffindor Common Room in the Harry Potter films.
• Unicorn being the Chekov's gun and titular mobile suit and in Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, the character Cardeas Vist has all of the tapestries in the drawing room of his mansion. Also, Riddhe Marcenas's role is that of the "Lion", with Mineva Lao Zabi being the "Lady" and the "Unicorn" being Banagher Links.
• These tapestries have also appeared in the book named Century by Sarah Singleton.
• The six tapestries have inspired the six movements of Kaija Saariaho's clarinet concerto D'OM LE VRAI SENS (2010). The title is an anagram of "A mon seul désir".