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Inigo Jones (15 July 1573 – 21 June 1652) was an English architect who was the first significant [1] architect in England in the early modern era and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings. [2]
[33] Like Inigo Jones, Stone was well aware of Florentine art and introduced to England a more delicate classical form of sculpture inspired by Michelangelo's Medici tombs. This is evident in his swags on the street façade of the Banqueting House, similar to that which adorns the plinth of his Francis Holles memorial.
The Masque of Augurs was a Jacobean era masque, written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones.It was performed, most likely, [1] on Twelfth Night, 6 January 1622. A second performance of the masque, with textual revisions by Jonson, occurred on 5 or 6 May 1622.
St Paul's Church is a Church of England parish church located in Bedford Street, Covent Garden, central London.It was designed by Inigo Jones as part of a commission for the 4th Earl of Bedford in 1631 to create "houses and buildings fit for the habitations of Gentlemen and men of ability". [1]
She commissioned Inigo Jones to return and finish the Queen's House between approximately 1629 and 1638. [14] As an important patron for contemporary artists, Henrietta acquired and commissioned many works of art for the Queen's House.
Inigo Jones, by Anthony Van Dyck. Jones was an architect, artist and connoisseur who was employed in the court of Charles I. He exercised the most influence over court culture by organising many Court Masques and incorporating images from the group's collections in their backdrop.
The masque was lavishly sponsored by the four Inns of Court, through a political and social motive.In 1632 the Puritan controversialist William Prynne (himself an Inns of Court man) had dedicated his anti-theatre diatribe Histriomastix to the Inns; since Histriomastix was perceived as insulting to Queen Henrietta Maria, the masque was the Inns' signal of their total rejection of any connection ...
Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly was a Jacobean era masque, written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, with music by Alfonso Ferrabosco. It was performed on 3 February 1611 at Whitehall Palace, and published in 1616. Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly proved to be the last masque in which Anne of Denmark, King James I's Queen ...