Drawing Room On Visit To Culzean Castle Near Maybole On Coast Of Ayrshire Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of a drawing room, also known as the old eating room, on visit to Culzean Castle, a Scottish castle overlooking the Firth of Clyde, near Maybole, Carrick, on the Ayrshire coast. It is the former home of the Marquess of Ailsa, the chief of Clan Kennedy. Culzean Castle was constructed as an L-plan castle by order of the 10th Earl of Cassilis. A drawing room is a room in a house or castle where visitors may be entertained. The name is derived from the 16th century terms withdrawing room and withdrawing chamber, which remained in use through the 17th century, and made their first written appearance in 1642. The Old Eating Room on the ground floor has a ceiling by Scottish architect Robert Adam, with roundels painted by Antonio Zucchi. Zucchi was born on May 1, 1726, in Venice, he studied under his uncle Carlo Zucchi and later Francesco Fontebasso and Jacopo Amigoni. He studied under his uncle Carlo Zucchi and later Francesco Fontebasso and Jacopo Amigoni. He married the painter Angelica Kauffman in 1781, who late in life moved with him to Rome. In Rome Zucchi produced a number of etchings of capriccio and veduta of classical buildings or ruins. He worked with Robert Adam in the decoration of houses in England and Scotland, including Kenwood, Newby Hall, Osterley Park, Nostell Priory, Culzean Castle and Luton House. In 1756, he was elected to the membership of the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice. In England, he was elected as an associate to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1770. Lady Borington commissioned him to paint the ceilings of rooms redesigned by Robert Adam at Saltram House in Devon. She also bought paintings from his wife for the house. He died in Rome in 1795. The surname Kennedy was first found in Ayrshire, Gaelic: Siorrachd Inbhir Àir, formerly a county in the southwestern Strathclyde region of Scotland, that today makes up the Council Areas of South, East, and North Ayrshire, where the earliest record of them dates from 1185, during the reign of King William the Lion, when a Henry Kennedy was reported to have been involved in a rebellion in Galloway but died in battle. The Kennedys derived from a branch of Celtic Earls of Galloway, not to be confused with Galway, which is in Ireland. Their power and influence in that region was great. In fact, there is a rhyme handed down through clansmen and bards from the year 1300 which runs as follows: " Twixt Wigtown and the town of Ayr, Portpatrick and the Cruives of Cree. No man need think to bide there, unless he court with Kennedy. " This castle is closed at present due to the coronavirus pandemic. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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