Getting away from it all – Marie de Guise’s Town House, Blyth’s Close, Edinburgh

Abstract

• As Principal Curator for Renaissance and Early Modern History, Anna played a major part in acquiring for the museum the four decorative oak roundels which once adorned the rooms of Marie de Guise’s residence in Blyth’s Close, Edinburgh. The roundels reveal much about the power and influence of Marie in Scotland and, through the powerful de Guise family, in Europe. A brief outline of Marie’s life and achievements sets the roundels in their historical context.