Archives de Tag: Kirk o’Field

Darnley, famous for being handsome – and murdered

janvier 6, 2014 · par · dans 16e siècle, Art, Écosse, culture, Histoire, Histoire de l'art, Marie Stuart, Patrimoine, Personnalité, Renaissance, Scotland · 2 Commentaires

Some people in History are notorious because of their violent deaths, some are famous for having married a celebrity and some are prominent by reason of a magnificently painted portrait. Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, cumulates all these three. His portrait in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery shows a blond boy of nine or ten, dressed […]

Mary and Darnley, the beautiful doomed couple

novembre 18, 2013 · par · dans 16e siècle, Art, Écosse, exposition, femmes, femmes et pouvoir, France, Frankreich, Guise, Histoire, Histoire de l'art, Marie Stuart, Patrimoine, Personnalité, Renaissance, Scotland · 2 Commentaires

Like the J.F. Kennedy murder fifty years ago, we might never know with certainty who killed Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, the second husband of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, near Kirk o’Field house in Edinburgh in 1567. The latest exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, dedicated to the infortunate queen, didn’t bring […]