Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
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@RobertBigg Glad you like it! Close engagement with the seal design proved very rewarding. Once we were hands-on, & 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 & .

#drawing #carving #archaeology #archives #medieval #sealmatrix #LadyofClare #clarecollege #cambridgeuniversity

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Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
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Lida the alphabetician spoke of choices in . Roxanne noted the architectural parallels with , demonstrated the , & explained other challenges for . And then the unveiling!
📹 35min in total, stories.clare.cam.ac.uk/unveil

#lettering #ely #gothicsway #stonecarving #LadyofClare #sealsculpture #cardozokindersley #clarecollege #cambridge

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Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
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@RobertBigg The Mansfield Forbes volumes have been digitised & are available to borrow @internetarchive:
Vol I archive.org/details/clarecolle
Vol II archive.org/details/clarecolle
- but it would be good if more such info were available to download from 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?

#clarecollege

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Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
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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 stories.clare.cam.ac.uk/unveil

#LadyofClare #stonecarving #clarecollege

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Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
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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!

@medievodons @histodons

#LadyofClare #14thcentury #silvermatrix #waxseal #clarecollege #heritage #photogrammetry #3dprinting #resin #craftsmanship #medievodons #histodons

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Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
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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!

@medievodons @histodons

#LadyofClare #14thcentury #silvermatrix #waxseal #clarecollege #heritage #photogrammetry #3dprinting #resin #craftsmanship #medievodons #histodons

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Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
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@terrygrundy Wonderful photo!
Is that the Great Court of behind? with the rooftops of & & parts of in the background?

#trinitycollege #trinityhall #clarecollege #kingscollege

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Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
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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, kindersleyworkshop.co.uk

Iconographic key & more at barnes1.net/seal/

@medievodons

#LadyofClare #14thcentury #waxseal #clarecollege #cambridgeuniversity #stonecarving #cardozokindersley #medievodons #histodons

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Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
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The wonderful choir of will be performing at Duke University Chapel tomorrow afternoon, Sun 16 April.
🎶 excerpts of the 'Rolling River' programme & CD: clarecollegechoir.com/product/
🎟️ Tour concert details: clarecollegechoir.com/engageme

#clarecollege #clarecollegechoir #cambridgeuniversity #choir #choralsinging #dukeuniversity

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Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
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Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
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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! 🤣

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

#internationalwomensday #womenshistorymonth #clarecollege #cambridgeuniversity

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Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
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MT from :
On the 12th day of Christmas, farewell the season with this wonderful performance from
- from 5 years ago but I may never tire of rewatching!

📹 🎵 twitter.com/ClassicFM/status/1


#classicfm #clarechoir #clarecollege #cambridgeuniversity #twelvedaysofchristmas

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Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
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@acambridgediary Looking forward to restoration of that view! by this day next year?
A dear to my 💛...

#bridge #clarecollege

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Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
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@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 in 1771. artuk.org/discover/artworks/se
might also have seen the 1714 mezzotint of the by John Faber, who portrayed college founders & reformers: npg.org.uk/collections/search/

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

#clarecollege #JaneAusten #LadyofClare

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Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
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I'll post about the life, times & legacy of Elizabeth de Burgh, , a spirited English noblewoman of the whose legacy includes & at . She & her remarkable network of friends were influential patrons of books, music, institutions & all the arts in a for English craftsmanship.

📷 a detail of the

@medievodons

#introduction #LadyofClare #14thcentury #clarecollege #clarehall #cambridgeuniversity #goldenage #pienzacope #medievalart #opusanglicanum #medievalmanuscripts #medievodons

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