Inigo Jones
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Inigo Jones was an English architect and stage designer who lived from 1573 to 1652 and played a major role in introducing classical design to England. His work shaped both the country's buildings and its theatrical productions during a transformative period in English art and architecture.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1573
- Died
- 1652
- Works
- 37
Top works
- Chloridia
- Festival designs
- The most notable antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury Plain, restored
- Designs of Inigo Jones and others
- Luminalia, or, The festivall of light
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 128
- Total plays
- 579
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
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Inigo Jones (15 July 1573 – 21 June 1652) was an English architect who was the first significant architect in England in the early modern era and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings. As the most notable architect in England, Jones was the first person to introduce the classical architecture of Rome and the Italian Renaissance to England. He left his mark on London by his design of single buildings, such as the Queen's House which is the first building in England designed in a pure classical style, and the Banqueting House, Whitehall, as well as the layout for Covent Garden square which became a model for future developments in the West End. He made major contributions to stage design by his work as a theatrical designer for several dozen masques, most by royal command and many in collaboration with Ben Jonson.
Early life and career