How is the style and iconography of The Unicorn Is Found characteristic of Northern Renaissance art?

What will be an ideal response?

The ideal answer should include:
1. Tapestries, like The Unicorn Is Found, provided both insulation and sumptuous decoration of the stone walls of castles, churches, and municipal buildings and they displayed their owner' wealth.
2. Like many examples of Northern Renaissance art, The Unicorn Is Found includes plants and animals from the natural world that have symbolic meaning.
3. The unicorn represented the Incarnation and was a metaphor for romantic love.
4. The lions and the stag symbolize the Resurrection of Christ, the rabbits represent fertility, and the dogs are associated with fidelity.
5. Many of the identifiable plants described with detail precision also carry religious and secular meaning, such as the strawberry representing sexual love.

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