Inigo Jones and the European Classicist Tradition (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
by Giles Worsley
from Paul Mellon Centre BA
Giles Worsley examines the full range of Jones’s architecture, from humble stable to royal palace. Worsley shows that key motifs that have been seen as proof of Jones’s Palladian loyalties—particularly the Serliana, the portico, and the centrally planned villa—have a much older and deeper meaning as symbols of sovereignty. The book transforms our understanding not only of Inigo Jones but also of the architecture of his time.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
Inigo Jones and the Classical Tradition
by Christy Anderson
from Cambridge University Press
Inigo Jones worked as hard on the creation of his architectural persona as he did on the design of the buildings for the early Stuart court. Through his study of continental architectural and art theory, humanist education, and courtly behavior, Jones redefined the intellectual status of architecture in England and forged a new role for the architect in public life. Since the time of his death, he has been variously described as the first educated architect, the first classicist, the first Renaissance architect in Britain, and the savior of British building from the long winter of the Elizabethan style. This reputation has overlooked the many ways that Jones drew on English customs in order to shape classical architecture for a domestic audience. This book explores the creation of Jones as professional architect and the development of classical architecture in England through a study of his reading, writing, and architectural practice.
This book explores the creation of Jones as professional architect and the development of classical architecture in England through a study of his reading, writing, and architectural practice in the context of English Renaissance culture.
Some Designs of Mister Inigo Jones and Mister William Kent
"Thermal windows": Roman lunette & screen motifs from Serlio, Palladio, Inigo Jones, Wren, & Robert Adam also Ledoux, Clérisseau, Neufforge,Peyre, & ... IX at Jefferson's University of Virginia
Architecture Without Kings: The Rise of Puritan Classicism Under Cromwell
Inigo Jones and Wren: Or The rise and decline of modern architecture in England
Catalogue of the Drawings by Inigo Jones, John Webb, and Isaac de Caus at Worcester College, Oxford
Jacobean architecture and the work of Inigo Jones in the earlier style
The Theatres of Inigo Jones and John Webb
As surveyor of the King's Works, Inigo Jones was responsible for the visual aspects of the masques performed at the various royal palaces, and both he and his pupil John Webb designed a number of regular theatres at Court. This book gathers together all of the drawings for playhouses which they prepared for the drama proper, excluding the more specialised designs for the Court masque. The designs are close to the mainstream of theatre development in the seventeenth century, ranging from the Cockpit in Drury Lane, 1616, to the Hall Theatre at Whitehall half a century later. Some of the designs are newly identified; others are reinterpreted, and many individual drawings are reassigned. As a result Jones and Webb are established as clearly the most effective London theatre builders of the seventeenth century, at least as influential in the architecture of playhouses and stages as they were in the more painterly traditions of scene design.
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