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Rick Steves' Europe

Art Bites 137: Secular Medieval Art: Castles and Tapestries

With rising prosperity, Europeans created more secular art and architecture: grand city halls and luxurious-for-the-day castles and palaces, with their stony walls warmed by finely woven tapestries (like the 500-year-old “Lady and the Unicorn”).