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Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

10/1/1973 - 6/30/1974

Funding Totals

$136,000.00 (approved)
$136,000.00 (awarded)

Masterpieces of Tapestry from the 14th to 16th Centuries

FAIN: GM-10279-74

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY 10028-0113)
James Pilgrim (Project Director: October 1973 to present)

To interpret the most important exhibition of tapestries from the 14th to 16th centuries yet held in the world by showing cultural climate, customs, tone and meaning of the period. The interpretation included in the exhibition consists of the history of the artistic development of tapestries by use of the finest examples extant.