Inigo Jones

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The Architect of Kings

Vaughan Hart

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Inigo Jones (1573-1652) is widely acknowledged to have been England's most important architect. As court designer to the Stuart kings James I and Charles I, he is credited with introducing the classical language of architecture to the country. He famously traveled to Italy and studied firsthand the buildings of the Italian masters, particularly admiring those by Andrea Palladio. 

Much less well known is the profound influence of native British arts and crafts on Jones's architecture. Likewise, his hostility to the more opulent forms of Italian architecture he saw on his travels has largely gone unnoted. This book examines both of these overlooked issues. Vaughan Hart identifies well-established links between the classical column and the crown prior to Jones, in early Stuart masques, processions, heraldry, paintings, and poems. He goes on to discuss Jones's preference for a "masculine and unaffected" architecture, demonstrating that this plain style was consistent with the Puritan artistic sensitivities of Stuart England. For the first time, the work of Inigo Jones is understood in its national religious and political context.



Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Vaughan Hart is professor of architecture in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Bath University.
ISBN: 9780300141498
Publication Date: September 27, 2011
Publishing Partner: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
336 pages, 7 1/2 x 10
100 color + 130 b/w illus.