"The British Museum, however, will lay the work out flat for the first time in recent history. The long, unbroken display in a bespoke case will invite visitors to take in the full scope of its 58 scenes, while allowing for expanded opportunities for "digital elements" explaining this relic's tale, according to the museum."
"From 1700 until 1842, authorities stored the Bayeux Tapestry rolled up-and only rolled it out for academics or dignitaries. Since 1983, the official Bayeux Tapestry Museum in Normandy has displayed the artifact vertically, in a vitrine."
"The embroidery demonstrates such a mastery of craft," Igor Tulchinsky, the WorldQuant CEO who pledged £5 million ($6.7 million) in support of the ten-month exhibition, said in a statement. "The symmetries and proportions show careful calculation. Its chronological structure reveals something equally sophisticated: a modern sense of causality and sequence. It is a narrative about decisions made under uncertainty, about commitments made before their consequences can be known.""
"The Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts the 1066 Norman Conquest of England, was uncovered during a 1476 inventory of Bayeux Cathedral, in France. While no one knows for sure where it had been before, the 230-foot-long epic was likely embroidered by a group of Canterbury-based nuns."
The Bayeux Tapestry, a nearly 1,000-year-old UNESCO-designated work depicting the 1066 Norman Conquest, is scheduled to go on view in its homeland for the first time in nearly a millennium. The British Museum plans to display it flat for the first time in recent history, using a bespoke case that keeps the work unbroken while showing all 58 scenes. The flat presentation is intended to broaden opportunities for digital elements that explain the tapestry’s story. Historically, the tapestry was stored rolled from 1700 to 1842 and displayed vertically in a vitrine since 1983. The exhibition will also include other loans, such as Oxford’s Junius II manuscript, likely used as a reference for depictions of clothing, ships, and items.
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