Elizabeth A. H. Cleland

Elizabeth Cleland is responsible for post-medieval European textiles. Working at The Met since 2004, she curated Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance (2017–22), co-curating Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry (2014–15) and The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England (2022–23). She was principal author of Grand Design's award-winning catalogue; co-edited Tapestry in the Baroque: New Aspects of Production and Patronage (2010); co-authored Tapestries from the Burrell Collection (2017) and Renaissance Splendor: Catherine de Medici's Valois Tapestries (2018). She studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art, receiving her MA and PhD as a British Academy scholar.