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Stirling Castle in 2017. The castle esplanade, or parade ground, has been used as an open-air concert venue for several noted acts, some of whom have used Stirling Castle and the surrounding scenery to film "in concert" DVDs. These acts include R.E.M., Ocean Colour Scene, Bob Dylan, Wet Wet Wet, Rod Stewart and Runrig.
"The Hunters Return to the Castle" tapestry, hanging in Mary of Guise's Inner Hall in the Royal Palace at Stirling Castle. Historic Scotland commissioned a set of seven hand-made tapestries for Stirling Castle, a recreation of The Unicorn Tapestries, as part of a project to furnish the castle as it was in the 16th century. It was part-funded by ...
Jenkin made two contracts for painting the rooms of the palace of Stirling Castle and the Chapel Royal in 1628. [9] On the exterior of the palace he gilded and painted the royal initials and crowns, and painted the window grills or yetts with red oil paint. Details on the gatehouse and its coat of arms were painted the same.
English: The presence chamber of Queen Mary (Mary of Guise) showing three of the Unicorn Tapestries. These are modern reproductions of a set of original medieval tapestries from the South Netherlands, owned by the Comtes de la Rochefoucauld for centuries, but donated to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art by the Rockefeller family.
Stirling Head carving thought to depict Margaret Tudor, 1540. The Stirling Heads are a group of large oak portrait medallions made around the year 1540 to decorate the ceiling of a room at Stirling Castle. [1] The style, in origin, was based on Italian architectural decoration and at Stirling was probably derived from a French source.
At Stirling Castle, in 1585, the king's "own hall" contained five pieces of tapestry with a dais (cloth of estate) of red damask fringed with gold, a cupboard, and a hanging chandelier of timber. Two suites of tapestry with five pieces were hanging in the palace at Stirling in 1578, the Triumph of Verity and the History of Roboam.