{"id":1792,"date":"2009-06-03T21:01:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T03:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2009-06-03T21:01:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T03:01:53","slug":"stirling-castle-carvings-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/03\/stirling-castle-carvings-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Stirling Castle carvings update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a follow-up to a <a href=\"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/27\/16th-century-wood-carvings-from-stirling-castle-studied\/\">post from last year<\/a>, here is an update on the Stirling Heads. The replica set mentioned in the previous article have now been unveiled.<\/p>\n<p>From the BBC:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>A hand-carved replica set of 41 giant medallions that once covered the ceilings of Stirling Castle&#8217;s Royal Palace have been unveiled.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It took expert wood carver John Donaldson five years to reproduce the oak heads, which each measure a metre.<\/p>\n<p>The original 16-century medallions feature vivid depictions of medieval kings and queens as well as mythological heroes.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/scotland\/tayside_and_central\/8079024.stm\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full article<\/a> &#8211; including small set of images with a carving of Henry VIII and another possibly of Margaret Tudor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a follow-up to a post from last year, here is an update on the Stirling Heads. The replica set mentioned in the previous article have now been unveiled. From the BBC: A hand-carved replica set of 41 giant medallions that once covered the ceilings of Stirling Castle&#8217;s Royal Palace&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/03\/stirling-castle-carvings-update\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-news","category-tudor-history-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}