This article is about the architect. For the British general, see Inigo Jones (British Army officer). For the meteorologist and farmer, see Inigo Owen Jones.
Inigo Jones
Portrait of Jones painted by William Hogarth in 1758 from a 1636 painting by Sir Anthony van Dyck
Born
(1573-07-15)15 July 1573
London, England
Died
21 June 1652(1652-06-21) (aged 78)
Somerset House, London, England
Nationality
English
Occupation
Architect
Buildings
Banqueting House, Whitehall Queen's House Wilton House Covent Garden
Inigo Jones (/ˈɪnɪɡoʊ/; possibly born Ynyr Jones;[1][2] 15 July 1573 – 21 June 1652) was the first significant[3] architect in England in the early modern period, and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.[4]
As the most notable architect in England,[4] Jones was the first person to introduce the classical architecture of Rome and the Italian Renaissance to Britain. He left his mark on London by his design of single buildings, such as the Queen's House which is the first building in England designed in a pure classical style, and the Banqueting House, Whitehall, as well as the layout for Covent Garden square which became a model for future developments in the West End. He made major contributions to stage design by his work as a theatrical designer for several dozen masques, most by royal command and many in collaboration with Ben Jonson.
^ Angharad Llwyd, A History of the Island of Mona, Or Anglesey (Ruthin: R. Jones, 1833) 360
^Arthur Aitkin, Journal of a Tour Through North Wales (London: J. Johnson, 1797) 108
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^ abHart, Vaughan (2011). Inigo Jones: The Architect of Kings. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300141498.
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narrative. Ben Jonson, for example, wrote masques with the architect InigoJones. William Davenant, who would become one of the major impresarios of the...
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intense development in the Jacobean era. His name is linked with that of InigoJones as co-developers of the literary and visual/technical aspects of this...
appearance in England before the Civil War, when it was introduced by InigoJones. However, following the Restoration it was replaced in popular favour...
27 April 1613 – InigoJones is appointed Surveyor of the King's Works in England. September 1615 – InigoJones, newly returned from a tour of continental...
Paul's, Covent Garden by InigoJones (1633). According to an often repeated story, recorded by Horace Walpole, Lord Bedford gave Jones a very low budget and...
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