The most important Italian Renaissance tapestry housed in the United States is about to get a glow up. On April 28, The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) announced that it was granting its €25,000 ($29,300) Museum Restoration Fund to the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) to repair The Meeting of Dante and Virgil , a mid-16th century tapestry. It’s the first time since the initiative was launched in 2012 that TEFAF has funded the restoration of a tapestry. MIA’s collection of more than 40 tapestries ranks as one of America’s most distinguished and the wool and silk depiction of the two great poets of the Italian peninsula meeting stands as its crown jewel. Spanning 17 feet tall and eight feet wide, the only early Medici tapestry held by a public collection outside of Italy is both extremely large and rather fragile. Accordingly, for much of the past 70 years, the tapestry has been in storage on account of structural weaknesses and light sensitivity.…