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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]
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 Greenwich Palace, a few miles downriver from the City of London.
Begun in 1619 and designed by Inigo Jones in a style influenced by Andrea Palladio, [2] the Banqueting House was completed in 1622 at a cost of £15,618, 27 years before Charles I was beheaded on a scaffold in front of it in January 1649. In the 1630s, paintings by Peter Paul Rubens were added to the interior ceiling.
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For a while, the name Inigo Philbrick was as good an investment as any in the gilded world of high-end art sales. The London-born collector’s meteoric rise and perilous fall remains one of the ...
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Inigo Jones (1757–58) Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse painting (c.1757) print (1758)—self-portrait [204] The Bench [205] First state (1758) Second state (unfinished) (1764)—issued posthumously. The Lady's Last Stake / Picquet or Virtue in Danger (1758–59) [54] Sigismunda mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo (1758–59) The Cockpit (1759 ...
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