Archives de Tag: 500th anniversary

‘And Yet It Stands’. Mary of Guise’s emblem pictured by Scottish artist Iona Leishman

juin 18, 2015 · par · dans 21th century, Art, arts décoratifs, Ausstellung, Écosse, culture, exposition, femmes, femmes et pouvoir, Guise, Marie de Guise, Mary of Guise, Personnalité, Scotland, Stirling castle, tourisme · 1 commentaire

ADHUC STAT – ‘And yet it stands’ – was the motto of Marie de Guise‘s personal emblem, accompanied by the pictura or image representing, according to French historian Gabriel de Pimodan, a crown set above a rock beaten by winds and waves. It is also the title of this summer’s exhibition of new paintings from […]

Mary of Guise’s Coat of Arms

avril 3, 2015 · par · dans 16e siècle, 16th century, arts décoratifs, Bar-le-Duc, Claude de Guise, coat of arms, femmes et pouvoir, France, Frankreich, heraldry, Histoire, history, Marie de Guise, Scotland · Poster un commentaire

The Mary of Guise-Lorraine article from this blog, recently republished on Celebrate Scotland, features amongst its illustrations the Queen regent’s Coat of Arms on stained glass. These Arms are situated in the middle window in the south wall of the Magdalen Chapel in Edinburgh. The Magdalen Chapel website states that it « was built [more likely […]

Marie and Louis of Orleans : A princely wedding in the summer of 1534

juillet 28, 2014 · par · dans 16e siècle, Art, culture, femmes, femmes et pouvoir, France, Frankreich, Guise, Histoire, history, James V, Lorraine, Lothringen, Marie de Guise, Mary of Guise, Personnalité, Renaissance · 4 Commentaires

There are no pictures of the event, neither of the young woman of eighteen called Marie, nor of her husband Louis of Orleans, duke of Longueville, born in 1510 and Great Chamberlain of France. Marie of Guise, eldest daughter of duke Claude of Guise and Antoinette of Bourbon, was introduced to the French Court three […]