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The elaborate minstrels' gallery in the Lescot Wing's lower main room, Louvre Palace, Paris. A minstrels' gallery is a form of balcony, often inside the great hall of a castle or manor house, and used to allow musicians (originally minstrels) to perform, sometimes discreetly hidden from the guests below.
The Minstrels' Gallery The minstrels' gallery in the nave dates to around 1360 and is unique in English cathedrals. Its front is decorated with 12 carved and painted angels playing medieval musical instruments, including the cittern , bagpipe , hautboy , crwth , harp , trumpet , organ , guitar , tambourine and cymbals , with two others which ...
Minstrel in the Gallery is the eighth studio album by British rock band Jethro Tull, released in September 1975.The album sees the band going in a different direction from their previous work War Child (1974), returning to a blend of electric and acoustic songs, in a manner closer to their early 1970s albums such as Benefit (1970), Aqualung (1971) and Thick as a Brick (1972).
The Ridderzaal in The Hague is the main building of the 13th-century inner square of the former castle of the counts of Holland called Binnenhof Great Hall of Stirling Castle, Scotland, view towards the north showing screens passage, with minstrels' gallery above. Many great halls still exist to this day.
English: The SS United States was an oceanliner built in 1951. Renowned for her record-breaking trans-Atlantic speed records, the ship has since fallen into disrepair. The photo is taken from the minstrel's gallery on the ship's Main Deck, looking onto the 1st-class dining room a deck below.
The interior has a former open great hall, but this has now had a ceiling installed, with an altered minstrels' gallery over a screen. This is 16th century as is the Renaissance style fireplace and the panelling and Gothic fireplace in the dining room. [12]
Catherine, Princess of Wales, is shown at The National Portrait Gallery on Feb. 4, 2025, in London. She joined a group of children to kick off a new initiative focused on helping young children ...
At the opposing end, at second floor level, was a minstrels' gallery, where a wall of Chinese screens blocked the musicians' view of the room. In front of the balcony was Astor's statue of Venus; around this were potted plants and a small marble waterfall. Before the fireplace stood Louis XVI style candelabra. Between the candelabra was a ...