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Sample photo's from the original interior work of Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, at Pinkie House.
Michael Bath throws light on the humanist culture that had begun to flourish in Scotland in the late sixteenth century by examining the series of large emblematic pictures painted on the ceiling at Pinkie Castle near Edinburgh. They were commissioned by Alexander Seton, a significant officer of the real, and form a gallery of neo-Stoic devices that were modelled on antique example and were appropriate to the residence of a grave man of state. We know too little about the emergence of a Renaissance culture in Scotland, and Bath's article offers a valuable picture of the humanist lifestyle of a leading courtier. One only has to think about the semi-classical pageants at Stirling in honour of Prince Henry's birth to recognise that the Scottish court was trying hard to match European standards of taste.
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