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Queen's House at Greenwich, London; designed by Inigo Jones. Jacobean age Interior of the Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace, London; designed by Inigo Jones. Figure 36: Double Cube Room at Wilton, Wiltshire, designed by Inigo jones, c. 1649 Italian-manner stage Design by Inigo Jones for a procession in The Masque of Augures
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Inigo Jones

English architect and artist
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Curator, Sir John Soane's House and Museum, London, 1945–84. Author of Inigo Jones; Sir Christopher Wren; and others.
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Inigo Jones (born July 15, 1573, Smithfield, London, Eng.—died June 21, 1652, London) was a British painter, architect, and designer who founded the English classical tradition of architecture. The Queen’s House (1616–19) at Greenwich, London, his first major work, became a part of the National Maritime Museum in 1937. His greatest achievement is the Banqueting House (1619–22) at Whitehall. Jones’s only other surviving royal building is the Queen’s Chapel (1623–27) at St. James’s Palace. Jones...

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