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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]
Anne commissioned her frequent collaborator, Inigo Jones, to refurbish the Queen's House in Greenwich. [14] Although the Queen's House was not completed before her death in 1619, Anne was able to use the palace at Greenwich as a personal gallery before her death. Both James I and Anne had private galleries and fashioned them in similar ways.
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In one drawing the emphasised keystones of the entrance and ground floor windows recall an early design by Jones for the Queen's House. [5] Upon Jones' death in 1652, Webb inherited a substantial fortune as well as a library of drawings and designs, many of which dated back to Jones' influential travels to Italy. [4] In 1654 Webb designed the ...
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Now a part of the National Maritime Museum, commisioned by Anne of Denmark (queen to King James I & VI) and designed by Inigo Jones in 1616, but not completed until 1635, well after Anne's death. Date: 27 June 2011, 13:48: Source: The Queen's House, Greenwich: Author: Duncan Harris from Nottingham, UK
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The Banqueting House facades were originally faced with two kinds of stone providing a colour contrast. Oxfordshire stone was used for the walls, and Purbeck stone for the columns, pilasters, and other ornaments. At Inigo Jones's request, a new pier was built at the Isle of Purbeck in 1620 for shipping the stone. The foundations and internal ...