Inigo Jones
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Inigo Jones was an English architect who was the first significant architect in England in the early modern era and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of Proportion and symmetry in his buildings. As
Portrait by William Hogarth, c. 1757–1758
Bust of Inigo Jones by John Michael Rysbrack, 1725
A masque costume for a knight, designed by Inigo Jones
The Queen's House at Greenwich, facing the River Thames
Queen's House
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Queen's House is a former royal residence in the London borough of Greenwich, which presently serves as a public art gallery. It was built between 1616 and 1635 on the grounds of the now demolished Gr
Inigo Jones
…the classical architecture of Rome and the Italian Renaissance to England. 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…
Plans of the Queen's House. The salon is a 40-foot (12.2 m) cube.
The Tulip Stairs and lantern; the first centrally unsupported helical stairs constructed in England. The stairs are supported by a cantilever from the walls with each tread resting on the one below.
Allegory of Peace and the Arts under the English Crown, by Orazio Gentileschi