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K. Ottenheym (2007)
Dutch Influences in William Bruce's ArchitectureArchitectural Heritage, 18
J. Dunbar (1999)
Scottish Royal Palaces: The Architecture of the Royal Residences During the Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Periods
Aonghus MacKechnie This paper considers 1670s Holyrood and Sir William Bruce, and it aims to set out some fresh contexts within which both architect and project can be placed.1 It sees Holyrood's reconstruction as fulfilling practical and rhetorical requirements for a modern royal palace, plus a political need to project a distinctively Scottish monarchy, meaning the architecture had therefore to encompass a careful selection of distinctively Scottish references. It also highlights Bruce's early role in castle preservation and conservation, in castle revival and revived Gothic, as well as his interest in what was to become known as the Picturesque. Overlying all this is the argument that Holyrood is the archetypal building in the history of Scotland's proto-Romanticism and mythmaking, and that it was made intentionally so partly to promote a myth of royal presence where the truth was otherwise; and that partly underlying the creation of a mythic Scotland was the decision to launch at Holyrood a reinvigorated Stuart rhetoric which included exploiting a politically unifying and unthreatening cult of Mary Queen of Scots. There are expenditures which are necessary, and others which are for splendour and dignity . . . One may count, among necessary expenditures, all
Architectural Heritage – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Nov 1, 2012
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