Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Sunday 13 August 2023

More about Bess of Hardwick’s tapestries


Hardwick Hall seems to have taken over a corner of the blog. Having posted about the restoration of the Long Gallery tapestries in Restoring Bess of Hardwick’s tapestries and then about the conservation of the adjacent Old Hall in More restoration work at Hardwick Hall I now see that Apollo has a more detailed study of the tapestries and their conservation.

The illustrated article gives much more detail than the original BBC account about the tapestries, their design and their manufacture as well as their position within Elizabethan culture and it can be seen at A massive success at Hardwick Hall


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