Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

9/1/1996 - 12/31/1999

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$250,000.00 (approved)
$250,000.00 (awarded)


The Qajar Epoch: Two Hundred Years of Painting from the Royal Persian Courts

FAIN: GM-25656-96

Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052)
Layla Diba (Project Director: January 1996 to April 2000)

To support a traveling exhibition, a catalog, and programs exploring the flowering of painting and the visual arts during the premodern era in Persia (1779-1924).