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JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)

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JONES, INIGO (1573-1651) . ,See also:English architect, sometimes called the " English See also:Palladio," the son of a See also:cloth-worker, was See also:born in See also:London on the 15th of See also:July 1573. It is stated that he was apprenticed to a joiner, but at any See also:rate his See also:talent for See also:drawing attracted the See also:attention of See also:Thomas See also:Howard, See also:earl of See also:Arundel (some say See also:William, 3rd earl of See also:Pembroke), through whose help he went to study landscape-See also:painting in See also:Italy. His preference soon transferred itself to See also:architecture, and, following chiefly the See also:style of Palladio, he acquired at See also:Venice such a reputation that in 1604 he was invited by See also:Christian IV. to See also:Denmark, where he is said to have designed the two See also:great royal palaces of Rosenborg and Frederiksborg. In the following See also:year he accompanied See also:Anne of Denmark to the See also:court of See also:James I. of See also:England, where, besides being appointed architect to the See also:queen and See also:Prince See also:Henry, he was employed in supplying the designs and decorations of the court masques. After a second visit to Italy in 1612, Jones was.appointed surveyor-See also:general of royal buildings by James I., and was engaged to prepare designs for a new See also:palace at See also:Whitehall. In 1620 he was employed by the See also:king to investigate the origin of See also:Stonehenge, when he came to the absurd conclusion that it had been a See also:Roman See also:temple. Shortly afterwards he was appointed one of the commissioners for the repair of St See also:Paul's, but the See also:work was not begun till 1633. Under See also:Charles I. he enjoyed the same offices as under his predecessor, and in the capacity of designer of the masques he came into collison with See also:Ben See also:Jonson, who frequently made him the See also:butt of his See also:satire. After the See also:Civil See also:War Jones was forced to pay heavy fines as a courtier and See also:malignant. He died in poverty on the 5th of July 1651. A See also:list of the See also:principal buildings designed by Jones is given in Dallaway's edition of See also:Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting, and for an estimate of him as an architect see See also:Fergusson's See also:History of See also:Modern Architecture.

The Architecture of Palladio, in 4 books, by Inigo Jones, appeared in 1715 ; The Most Notable Antiquity of Great See also:

Britain, called Stonehenge, restored by Inigo Jones, in 1655 (ed. with memoir, 1725); the Designs of Inigo Jones, by W. See also:Kent, in 1727; and The Designs of Inigo Jones, by J. See also:Ware, in 1757. See also G. H. See also:Birch, London Churches of the X VIIth and X VIIIth Centuries (1896) ; W. J. Loftie, Inigo Jones and See also:Wren, or the Rise and Decline of Modern Architecture in England (1893).

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