Inigo Jones

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Figure 36: Double Cube Room at Wilton, Wiltshire, designed by Inigo jones, c. 1649

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Inigo Jones

English architect and artist

Written by John Summerson

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Last Updated: Mar 18, 2024 • Article History

Category: Arts & Culture

Born:: July 15, 1573, Smithfield, London, Eng.

Died:: June 21, 1652, London (aged 78)

Movement / Style:: Jacobean age; Palladianism; Stuart style

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Inigo Jones (born July 15, 1573, Smithfield, London, Eng.—died June 21, 1652, London) was a British painter, architect, and designer who founded the English classical tradition of architecture. The Queen’s House (1616–19) at Greenwich, London, his first major work, became a part of the National Maritime Museum in 1937. His greatest achievement is the Banqueting House (1619–22) at Whitehall. Jones’s only other surviving royal building is the Queen’s Chapel (1623–27) at St. James’s Palace. Jones was the son of a cloth worker also called Inigo. Of the architect’s early life little is recorded, but he was probably apprenticed to a ...(100 of 1332 words)

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