Queen’s Gallery, Holyrood House

Just a plug — a delight­ful small gal­lery, beau­ti­fully designed, that has really inter­est­ing exhib­i­tions. Cur­rent one is Breughel to Rubens. Lots of excel­lent pic­tures, with Breughel’s “Mas­sacre of the Inno­cents” the star. It appears at first sight to have rather few inno­cents being put down, but, as the inform­at­ive cap­tion revealed, if you look a bit closer you can see that the goat, and the sack and vari­ous other objects people are hold­ing or stick­ing swords into used to be infants before they were painted over.  I’m not sure of the date or motive of the squeam­ish souls who did that.  And don’t miss the handles on the gal­lery entrance door — best ever.

The café does an excel­lent BLT — the shop doesn’t have any­thing any sane per­son would want to buy.

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