Main entry:

Hart, Vaughan, 1960-

Title & Author:

Inigo Jones : the architect of kings / Vaughan Hart.

Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, ©2011.

Description:

xxi, 308 pages : illustrations (some color), plates ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-300) and index.
The English Vitruvius: who was Inigo Jones? -- Albion and Jerusalem: Protestant ancient Britain and Jones's Tuscan Stonehenge -- Magnificent inventions: Jones's architectural orders as emblems of royal triumph -- A piece of good heraldry: Jones and the orders of chivalry and architecture -- Her majesty resembled to the crowned pillar: the body of Jones's columns and the legal body of the Stuart King -- Moral architecture: the early English architectural treatises at the Banqueting House -- Masculine and unaffected: the 'Roman sketchbook' at the Queen's House, Newmarket lodging and the Catholic chapels -- Imagination set free: ethics and decorum at the Banqueting House -- Imperial seat or Ecumenical Church? Religious and ornamental harmony at St Paul's Cathedral.
Shortlisted for the Art Book Prize (formerly Banister Fletcher Prize), 2012.

Summary:

"Inigo Jones (1573-1652) is widely acknowledged to have been England's most important architect. As court designer to the Stuart kings James I and Charles I, he is credited with introducing the classical language of architecture to the country. He famously travelled to Italy and studied firsthand the buildings of the Italian masters, particularly admiring those by Andrea Palladio. Much less well-known is the profound influence of native British arts and crafts on Jones' architecture. Likewise, his hostility to the more opulent forms of Italian architecture he saw on his travels has largely gone unnoted. This book examines both of these overlooked issues. Vaughan Hart identifies well-established links between the classical column and the crown prior to Jones, in early Stuart masques, processions, heraldry, paintings, and poems. He goes on to discuss Jones' preference for a 'masculine and unaffected' architecture, demonstrating that this plain style was consistent with the Puritan artistic sensitivities of Stuart England. For the first time, the work of Inigo Jones is understood in its national religious and political context."--Publisher description.

ISBN:

9780300141498 (cl ; alk. paper)
0300141491 (cl ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652 Criticism and interpretation.
Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652.
Jones, Inigo 1573-1652
Jones, Inigo.
Classicism in architecture Great Britain.
Architecture and state Great Britain.
Classicisme en architecture Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture Politique gouvernementale Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture and Planning.
Architecture and state.
Classicism in architecture.
Architektur
Klassizismus.
Palladianismus.
Klassicism (arkitektur) Storbritannien.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 274776
Call No.: BIB 208671
Status: Available