Main entry:

Leapman, Michael, 1938-

Title & Author:

Inigo : the troubled life of Inigo Jones, architect of the English Renaissance / Michael Leapman.

Publication:

London : Review, 2003.

Description:

xviii, 414 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 380-394) and index.
Terror at Basing House -- Foundations -- Inigo's London -- Palladio the peerless -- The odd couple -- The looks, the laughter, and the sports -- First steps in architecture -- A prince among men -- Pilgrim's progress -- In the steps of the masters -- On their Majesties' service -- The Banqueting House : harmony amid disorder -- The weakness of princes -- Honour thy father -- A house fit for a queen -- Such sweet sorrow -- St Paul's : politics and piety -- Covent Garden : shaking the money tree -- Pictures with light and motion -- The last masques -- Time ruins all things -- Revival.

Summary:

One of the first and greatest of the English Renaissance architects, Inigo Jones was an unlikely candidate to change the landscape of British design. Yet this self-taught son of a Smithfield cloth worker was to bring classicism to England and his surviving buildings still display his talent.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0755310020
9780755310029
0755310039 (pbk.)
9780755310036 (pbk.)

Subject:

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

Form/genre:

collective biographies.
Biographies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231353
Call No.: NA44.J77.9 L4 2003
Status: Available