Word: 11ft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week the reassembled tapestry went on view at the Metropolitan Museum's medieval showroom, The Cloisters, of which Rorimer is director. The tapestry, a sumptuous rectangle 30 ft. long by 11ft. high, has been named The Glorification of Charles VIII, King of France from 1483 to 1498. The detail reproduced on the opposite page, less than a third of the whole, shows the magnificence that the medieval artist, believed to have been Jan van Roome of Brussels, put into his work...