@RobertBigg Glad you like it! Close engagement with the seal design proved very rewarding. Once we were hands-on, #drawing & #carving brought recognition & enhanced appreciation of many small details. (It's embarrassing how much I overlooked when just looking.) Also fun that over the 3years between the new edition of the biography & the seal booklet, we learned more from both #archaeology & #archives.

#medieval #SealMatrix #LadyOfClare #ClareCollege #CambridgeUniversity

Lida the alphabetician spoke of choices in #lettering. Roxanne noted the architectural parallels with #Ely, demonstrated the #GothicSway, & explained other challenges for #stonecarving. And then the unveiling!
📹 35min in total, https://stories.clare.cam.ac.uk/unveiling-of-lady-clares-seal/

#LadyOfClare #SealSculpture #stonecarving #CardozoKindersley #ClareCollege #Cambridge

@RobertBigg The Mansfield Forbes volumes have been digitised & are available to borrow @internetarchive:
Vol I https://archive.org/details/clarecollege13260000clar/
Vol II https://archive.org/details/clarecollege13260002clar/
- but it would be good if more such info were available to download from #ClareCollege itself.

Thanks for mentioning the video of the talks on the seal & the Seal Sculpture project - I enjoyed hearing them again! How was the 650th anniversary celebrated?

The seal, first used in 1359, is "an extraordinary depiction of female vision, & female faith in the importance of education, & a woman's power & ability to accomplish that vision... We have one of the world's greatest stonecutters a mile up the road, who also happens to be a woman."
Informative & entertaining talks by Jackie Tasioulas, & Lida & Roxanne Kindersley, preceded the unveiling of the sculpture, & are online at https://stories.clare.cam.ac.uk/unveiling-of-lady-clares-seal/
#LadyOfClare #StoneCarving #ClareCollege

The skill of the medieval silversmith & the modern stonecarvers was celebrated in a third medium with our project mementos! These were made by Cameron Newham FSA, using photogrammetry, 3D-printing, & handpainting. Tiny medieval treasures & large stone sculptures are both hard to move: these small replicas are a delight!

#LadyOfClare #14thCentury #SilverMatrix #WaxSeal #ClareCollege #heritage #photogrammetry #3Dprinting #resin #craftsmanship #medievodons #histodons @medievodons @histodons

The skill of the medieval silversmith & the modern stonecarvers was celebrated in a third medium with our project mementos! These were made by Cameron Newham FSA, using photogrammetry, 3D-printing, & handpainting. Tiny medieval treasures & large stone sculptures are both hard to move: these small replicas are a delight!

#LadyOfClare #14thCentury #SilverMatrix #WaxSeal #ClareCollege #heritage #photogrammetry #3Dprinting #resin #craftsmanship #medievodons #histodons @medievodons @histodons

@terrygrundy Wonderful photo!
Is that the Great Court of #TrinityCollege behind? with the rooftops of #TrinityHall & #ClareCollege & parts of #KingsCollege in the background?

Wonderful to be at Clare College to unveil the stone sculpture of the 1359 seal - greatly enlarged for visibility! Wonderful workmanship by Cardozo Kindersley Workshop, http://kindersleyworkshop.co.uk

Iconographic key & more at https://barnes1.net/seal/

#LadyOfClare #14thCentury #WaxSeal #ClareCollege #CambridgeUniversity #StoneCarving #CardozoKindersley #medievodons #histodons @medievodons

The wonderful choir of #ClareCollege will be performing at Duke University Chapel tomorrow afternoon, Sun 16 April.
🎶 excerpts of the 'Rolling River' programme & CD: https://www.clarecollegechoir.com/product/rolling-river-american-choral
🎟️ Tour concert details: https://www.clarecollegechoir.com/engagements
#ClareCollegeChoir #CambridgeUniversity #choir #ChoralSinging #DukeUniversity

The #choir of #ClareCollege is now touring in the US. I'm biassed, but they're good! Catch them at #Middlebury VT, #DukeUniversity & #Davidson NC, #Knoxville #Memphis & #Nashville TN.
🎶 excerpts of their new CD 'Rolling River': https://www.clarecollegechoir.com/product/rolling-river-american-choral
🎟️ Tour concert details: https://www.clarecollegechoir.com/engagements

#ClareCollegeChoir #CambridgeUniversity #ChoralSinging

Bailed out by a woman in 1336, it took another 636 years for women to be admitted as students. Now the Senior Tutor & Master are women - & sporting achievement did not collapse as feared! 🤣

#InternationalWomensDay #WomensHistoryMonth #ClareCollege #CambridgeUniversity

(This is a 2015 photo; a little renovation was required after all these centuries, but the view is to be restored soon.)

MT from #ClassicFM:
On the 12th day of Christmas, farewell the season with this wonderful performance from #ClareChoir
- from 5 years ago but I may never tire of rewatching!

📹 🎵 https://twitter.com/ClassicFM/status/1611063595118505984

#ClareCollege #CambridgeUniversity
#TwelveDaysOfChristmas

@acambridgediary Looking forward to restoration of that view! by this day next year?
A #bridge dear to my 💛...
#ClareCollege

@Tony_Meredith
This was also a time when the Cambridge colleges were commissioning portraits of those who had shaped them. Joseph Freeman painted many such men, & as far as I know just one woman – the portrait commissioned by #ClareCollege in 1771. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/search/actor:freeman-joseph-17291799
#JaneAusten might also have seen the 1714 mezzotint of the #LadyOfClare by John Faber, who portrayed college founders & reformers: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw35597/Elizabeth-de-Clare-Lady-de-Burgh

I look forward to hearing your thoughts... 4/4 END

#introduction

I'll post about the life, times & legacy of Elizabeth de Burgh, #LadyOfClare, a spirited English noblewoman of the #14thCentury whose legacy includes #ClareCollege & #ClareHall at #CambridgeUniversity. She & her remarkable network of friends were influential patrons of books, music, institutions & all the arts in a #GoldenAge for English craftsmanship.

📷 a detail of the #PienzaCope

#MedievalArt #OpusAnglicanum #MedievalManuscripts #medievodons @medievodons