Old travel Blog photograph of the Grand Stair in Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland. The Great Stair in the south-west corner of the quadrangle has a 17th century Baroque ceiling featuring plaster angels holding the Honours of Scotland. The Italian paintings on the walls are fragments of frescoes painted circa 1550 by Lattanzio Gambara, illustrating scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses. They were bought by Prince Albert in 1856, and placed here in 1881.
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