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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]
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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.
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
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places in Jones County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Jones County, Texas. There are 22 properties listed on the National Register in the county. Three of these are also Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks.
The only surviving building of the 17th-century additions to the palace is the Queen's House. This building, designed by architect Inigo Jones, is of particular architectural and historical significance as it is often credited as being the first classical building in England, and was a clear departure from the Tudor style. [25]