Inigo Jones / by John Summerson.

Main entry:

Summerson, John, 1904-1992, author.

Title & Author:

Inigo Jones / by John Summerson.

Publication:

Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1966.

Description:

149 pages : illustrations (including portrait), plans ; 20 cm

Series:

The Architect and society
Pelican book; A839.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-144).
Introduction -- Early years -- The masques -- The first architectural designs -- Surveyor to Prince Henry -- The second Italian journey -- The surveyor -- Ten years' work : 1615-25 -- Philosophy : architecture -- The royal works of Charles I -- Covent Garden -- St Paul's Cathedral -- Inigo at sixty -- Town and country -- The Whitehall designs -- The last years.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"Indigo Jones was the first English classical architect, famous in his own (he was nine years junior to Shakesphere) and the posthumous sponsor of the Palladianism of the eighteenth century. In this revolutionary book Sir John Summerson clears away a mass of legend in order to direct attention to the essential inigo, basing a new assessment of his genius on the evidence if buildings and designs of undoubted authenticity. While the Queen's House at Greenwich and the famous Whitehall Banqueting House receive due acknowledgement, such long lost works as the Covent Garden piazza and the transformation of old st. Paul's are shown, after rigorous examination of the records, to be even more eloquent of thier architect's philosophy. Inigo Jones emerges as a unique figure in the Europe if his time and an architect of fundamental importance" - Publisher.

Resources:
Table of contents
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0140208399
9780140208399

Subject:

Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652.
Jones, Inigo (1573-1652).
Jones, Inigo.
Architects Great Britain Biography.
Architectes Grande-Bretagne Biographies.
Architects
Great Britain

Form/genre:

Biography
paperbacks.
Typefaces.
Biographies

Added entries:

Architect and society.
Pelican books ; A839.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 154431
Call No.: NA44.J77.9 S8 1966
Status: Available

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