"A Peece Rather of Good <i>Heraldry</i>, than of <i>Architecture</i>": Heraldry and the Orders of Architecture as Joint Emblems of Chivalry

Hart, Vaughan

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“…The close affinity between heraldry and the classical language of architecture (that is to say, the Renaissance refinement of Vitruvius's discipline of the orders) was often articulated in early seventeenth-century Britain. 56 Both 'grammars' were carefully laid down in learned treatises replete with classical allusion and references to chivalric codes of honour, propriety and rank. Heraldry and architecture, like the ranks of the military, had to be brought to order.…”

Section: The Heraldrymentioning

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The Kinnoull Aisle and Monument

Howard¹

1996

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Inside the rubble-walled chapel known as the Kinnoull Aisle, across the Tay from the city of Perth, stands one of the most remarkable funeral monuments ever erected in Scotland (Fig. 1). Now abandoned and desolate, the monument commemorates the life of Sir George Hay, who was created Earl of Kinnoull in 1633, the year before his death, at the end of a brilliant career as a courtier, politician and industrialist. The burial chapel (Fig. 2) was originally attached to the former parish church of Kinnoull. Like the more celebrated Montgomery Aisle and Monument at Skelmorlie, near Largs, erected in the same years, it is now freestanding; the adjoining church was demolished in the nineteenth century, probably in 1826 when a new church was erected on a different site to serve the parish of Kinnoull. Before turning to the monument itself, it is expedient to introduce the formidable statesman whose memory it enshrines.

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Section: The Heraldrymentioning

confidence: 99%