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Inigo Jones (15 July 1573 – 21 June 1652) was an English architect who was the first significant architect in England in the early modern era and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings. As the most notable architect in England, Jones was the first person to introduce the classical architecture of Rome and the Italian Renaissance to England. He left his mark on London by his design of single buildings, such as the Queen's House which is the first building in England designed in a pure classical style, and the Banqueting House, Whitehall, as well as the layout for Covent Garden square which became a model for future developments in the West End. He made major contributions to
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by his work as a theatrical designer for several dozen
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s, most by royal command and many in collaboration with
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.


Early life and career

Beyond that he was born in Smithfield, London, as the son of clothworker Inigo Jones Snr., and baptised at the church of St Bartholomew-the-Less, little is known about Jones's early years. Later Welsh sources claim that the family was from
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, and even that Inigo was originally named Ynir or Ynyr Jones, but no records from his own time indicate any family ties to Wales. He did not approach the architectural profession in the traditional way, namely either by rising up from a craft or through early exposure to the Office of Works, although there is evidence that
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obtained information that recorded Jones as an apprentice joiner in St Paul's Churchyard. At some point before 1603, a rich patron (possibly the
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or the Earl of Rutland) sent him to Italy to study drawing after being impressed by the quality of his sketches. From Italy he travelled to Denmark where he worked for Christian IV on the design of the palaces of Rosenborg and Frederiksborg. Jones first became famous as a designer of costumes and stage settings, especially after he brought "
masque The masque was a form of festive courtly entertainment that flourished in 16th- and early 17th-century Europe, though it was developed earlier in Italy, in forms including the intermedio (a public version of the masque was the pageant). A mas ...
s" to the stage. Under the patronage of Queen
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(the consort of King James I), he is credited with introducing movable scenery and the
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arch to English theatre. Between 1605 and 1640, he was responsible for staging over 500 performances, collaborating with
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for many years, despite a relationship fraught with competition and jealousy: the two had arguments about whether stage design or literature was more important in theatre. (Jonson ridiculed Jones in a series of his works, written over two decades.) Over 450 drawings for the scenery and costumes survive, demonstrating Jones's virtuosity as a draughtsman and his development between 1605 and 1609 from initially showing "no knowledge of Renaissance draughtsmanship" to exhibiting an "accomplished Italianate manner" and understanding of Italian set design, particularly that of Alfonso and Giulio Parigi. This development suggests a second visit to Italy, , influenced by the ambassador
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. Jones learned to speak Italian fluently and there is evidence that he owned an Italian copy of Andrea Palladio's with
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that refer to Wotton. His architectural work was particularly influenced by Palladio. To a lesser extent, he also held to the architectural principles of the ancient Roman writer
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. Jones's first recorded architectural design is for a monument to Frances, Lady Cotton, commissioned by Rowland Cotton, , at Norton-in-Hales, Shropshire, showing early signs of his classical intentions. In July 1606, Jones made scenery for a masque at Theobalds for the Earl of Salisbury. In the following years, Jones made drawings for the Earl of Salisbury's New Exchange in the Strand, where work commenced in June 1608, and the central tower of St Paul's Cathedral, displaying a similar practical architectural inexperience and immature handling of themes from sources including Palladio, Serlio and Sangallo. In 1609, having perhaps accompanied Salisbury's son and heir, Viscount Cranborne, around France, he appears as an architectural consultant at
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, making small modifications to the design as the project progressed, and in 1610, Jones was appointed Surveyor to Prince Henry. He devised the masques the '' Barriers'' and the '' Masque of Oberon'' for the Prince and was possibly involved in some alterations to
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. On 27 April 1613, Jones was appointed the position of Surveyor of the King's Works and shortly after, embarked on a tour of Italy with the
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, destined to become one of the most important patrons in the history of English art. On this trip, Jones was exposed to the architecture of
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and
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among others. His surviving sketchbook shows his preoccupation with such artists as Parmigianino and Andrea Schiavone. He is also known to have met Vincenzo Scamozzi at this time. His annotated copy of Palladio's ''Quattro libri dell'architettura'' also demonstrates his close interest in classical architecture: Jones gave priority to Roman antiquity rather than observing the contemporary fashion in Italy. He was probably the first native-born to study these Roman remains first hand and this was key to the new architecture Jones introduced in England and Wales.


Masques

Jones worked as a producer and architect for
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s from 1605 to 1640, but his most known work in this field came from his collaboration with poet and playwright
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. Having worked together for fifteen years, the two debated and had disagreements about their line of work and about what was most integral in a masque. While Jonson argued that the most important aspect of a masque was the written word that the audience heard, Jones argued that the visual spectacle was the most important aspect, and that what the audience saw was more important. Jones also felt that the architect had just as much creative freedom and rights as the writer or poet of the masque. In defence of this Jones stated that masques were "nothing but pictures with light and motion," making little to note of the words spoken. Jones's work on masques with Jonson is credited to be one of the first instances of scenery introduced in theatre. In his masques, curtains were used and placed in between the stage and the audience, and they were to be opened to introduce a scene. Jones was also known for using the stage and theatre space in its entirety, putting his actors throughout different parts of the theatre, such as placing them below the stage or elevating them onto a higher platform. Jones's settings on the stage also incorporated different uses of light, experimenting with coloured glasses, screens and oiled paper to create a softer source of light on the stage. Jones is also known for introducing to English audiences moving scenery through what is called 'machina versatilis', helping to create motion among a stable scene without any noticeable Stagehands and of creating a representation of the ethereal. These elements of stage design and of theatre production would later have influence beyond the English court, as those working in the public stage would take up these ideas and apply them to the early modern stage and for its larger audience.


Architecture

In September 1615, Jones was appointed Surveyor-General of the King's Works, marking the beginning of Jones's career in earnest. Fortunately, both James I and Charles I spent lavishly on their buildings, contrasting hugely with the economical court of
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. As the King's Surveyor, Jones built some of his key buildings in London. In 1616, work began on the Queen's House, Greenwich, for James I's wife, Anne. With the foundations laid and the first storey built, work stopped suddenly when Anne died in 1619. Jones provided a design for the queen's funeral hearse or catafalque, but it was not implemented. Work at Greenwich resumed in 1629, this time for Charles I's Queen,
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. It was finished in 1635 as the first strictly classical building in England, employing ideas found in the architecture of Palladio and ancient Rome. This is Jones's earliest-surviving work. Between 1619 and 1622, the Banqueting House in the
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was built, a design derived from buildings by Scamozzi and Palladio, to which a ceiling painted by
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was added several years later. The Whitehall palace was one of several projects where Jones worked with his personal assistant and nephew by marriage John Webb. The
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, St. James's Palace, was built between 1623 and 1627, initially for Charles I's proposed bride, the Roman Catholic Infanta Maria Anna of Spain, and then for Charles I's wife, Henrietta Maria of France. Parts of the design originate in the Pantheon of ancient Rome and Jones evidently intended the church to evoke the Roman temple. These buildings show the realization of a mature architect with a confident grasp of classical principles and an intellectual understanding of how to implement them. The other project in which Jones was involved is the design of Covent Garden Square. He was commissioned by the Earl of Bedford to build a residential square, which he did along the lines of the Italian piazza of
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. It is the first regularly planned square in London. The Earl felt obliged to provide a church and he warned Jones that he wanted to economise. He told him to simply erect a "barn" and Jones's oft-quoted response was that his lordship would have "the finest barn in Europe". In the design of St Paul's, Jones faithfully adhered to
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's design for a Tuscan temple and it was the first wholly and authentically classical church built in England. The inside of St Paul's, Covent Garden was gutted by fire in 1795, but externally it remains much as Jones designed it and dominates the west side of the piazza. Jones also designed the square of Lincoln's Inn Fields, and a house in the square, the Lindsey House built in 1640, is often attributed to Jones. Its design of a rusticated ground floor with giant
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s above supporting the entablature and balustrade served as a model for other town houses in London such as John Nash's
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terraces, as well as in other English and Welsh towns such as Bath's Royal Crescent. Another large project Jones undertook was the repair and remodelling of
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. Between the years of 1634 and 1642, Jones wrestled with the dilapidated Gothicism of Old St Paul's, casing it in classical masonry and totally redesigning the west front. Jones incorporated the giant scrolls from Vignola and della Porta's
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with a giant Corinthian portico, the largest of its type north of the Alps, but the church would be destroyed in the
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in 1666. Also around this time, circa 1638, Jones devised drawings completely redesigning the
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, but the execution of these designs was frustrated by Charles I's financial and political difficulties. More than 1000 buildings have been attributed to Jones but only a very small number of those are certain to be his work. According to architecture historian John Summerson, the modern concept of an architect's artistic responsibility for a building did not exist at that time, and Jones's role in many instances may be that of a civil servant in getting things done rather than as an architect. Jones's contribution to a building may also simply be verbal instructions to a mason or bricklayer and providing an Italian engraving or two as a guide, or the correction of drafts. In the 1630s, Jones was in high demand and, as Surveyor to the King, his services were only available to a very limited circle of people, so often projects were commissioned to other members of the Works. Stoke Bruerne Park in Northamptonshire was built by Sir Francis Crane, "receiving the assistance of Inigo Jones", between 1629 and 1635. Jones is also thought to have been involved in another country house, this time in
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. Wilton House was renovated from about 1630 onwards, at times worked on by Jones, then passed on to Isaac de Caus when Jones was too busy with royal clients. He then returned in 1646 with his student, John Webb, to try and complete the project. Contemporary equivalent architects included Sir Balthazar Gerbier and Nicholas Stone. One of Jones's designs is the "double cube" room at Wilton, and it was also the foundation stone of his status as the father of British architecture. Jones, as the pioneer in his era, had strong influence during their time. His revolutionary ideas even effect beyond the Court circle, and today, many scholars believe that he also started the golden age of British architecture.


Political and civic life

On 16 February 1621, in a by-election caused by the ejection of an existing member Sir John Leedes, Jones was elected M.P. in the
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for New Shoreham in West
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, a borough constituency controlled by the Earl of Arundel, and sat till the dissolution of that parliament in February 1622. He was named to a committee to improve lighting and increase seating in the House of Commons' chamber, resulting in a new gallery being erected in St Stephen's Chapel during the summer recess and was also responsible for a new ceiling put in the House of Lords chamber in 1623. He also served as a Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for the county of
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and borough of
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from 1630 until at least 1640. He was made a freeman of the borough of
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in 1623 and in 1633 was offered, but declined, a knighthood by Charles I.


Later life

Jones's full-time career effectively ended with the outbreak of the
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in 1642 and the seizure of the King's houses in 1643. Jones was captured at the third siege of Basing House in October 1645. Unfortunately, as one of the last great strongholds to the Cavaliers, the great mansion inside was destroyed by Cromwell's army and even the walls were broken into many pieces. His property was later returned to him (c. 1646) but Jones ended his days, unmarried, living in
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. He was, however, closely involved in the design of Coleshill House, in Berkshire, for the Pratt family, which he visited with the young apprentice architect Roger Pratt, to fix a new site for the proposed mansion. He died on 21 June 1652 and was buried with his parents at St Benet's, Paul's Wharf, the Welsh church of the
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. John Denham and then
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followed him as King's Surveyor of Works. A monument dedicated to him in the church, portraying St Paul's Cathedral and other buildings, was destroyed in the Great Fire in 1666.


Legacy

Jones was an influence on a number of 18th-century architects, notably Lord Burlington and
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. There is an Inigo Jones Road in Charlton, southeast London (SE7), near Charlton House, some of whose features were allegedly designed by him. A bridge in
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, North Wales, built in 1636 and named "Pont Fawr" is also known locally as "Pont Inigo Jones" (Inigo Jones's Bridge). R. F. Gould said he was responsible for the Masonic "Inigo Jones Manuscript", from around 1607, a document of the Old Charges of
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.


List of architectural works

*Design for the completion of the central tower, old
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, not executed (c. 1608) *Design for the New Exchange in the Strand, London, not executed (c.1608) *The Queen's House, Greenwich (1616–1619), work suspended on the death of
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completed (1630–1635) for
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*Design for the Star Chamber building, not executed (1617) *Gateway at Oatlands Palace (1617), now at
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*Gateway at Arundel House (1618), demolished * Banqueting House, Whitehall (1619–22) *Prince's Lodging, Newmarket for Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1619), demolished *The
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, St. James's Palace (1623–27), for
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* Fort Amsterdam (1625) – The
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asked Jones to design a stone fortification on the
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, which he did, but the fort was built (by Cryn Fredericks) out of wood instead and was torn down in 1790. *The Cockpit Theatre,
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(1629) demolished * Stoke Park Pavilions, Northamptonshire, attributed (c. 1629–35) *
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Chapel (1630–35), demolished * Covent Garden, London, houses on the north and east side as well as St Paul's, Covent Garden on the west (1631–1637) only the church survives * Old St Paul's Cathedral, new west front and remodelling of the nave and transepts (1634–42) destroyed in the
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* Wilton House, Wiltshire (1636–40) the interior burnt c.1647, rebuilt to the designs of John Webb (1648) *Sir Peter Killigrew's House, Blackfriars, London (1630s) not known if built *
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, various schemes for the complete rebuilding of the palace (c. 1637–39) *Lord Maltravers's House, Lothbury, London (1638) if built destroyed in the Great Fire of London * Temple Bar, London, design for a triumphal arch, not executed (1638) *Screen in
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(c.1638), removed by the dean in 1820, and its central portion is now found in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,
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, incorporated into the building as an architectural feature. *Design for a row of houses in Lothbury for Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel (c.1638), destroyed in the Great Fire of London *Lindsey House, Lincoln's Inn Fields now numbers 59 & 60, attributed (c. 1638–40)The list is based on, Inigo Jones, John Summerson, 2nd edition 2000, Yale University Press *Milton Manor House, Milton, Abingdon, Oxfordshire * Coleshill House, Berkshire (designed by Jones and executed by Roger Pratt) * Chesterton Windmill, Warwickshire (assisted his pupil John Stone with the design)


Gallery of architectural works

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File:QueensChapelLondon.jpg, Queen's Chapel, St. James Palace, London File:Stoke Park Pavilions 2008 08 16.jpg, Stoke Park, attributed


See also

* List of architects * Lists of people from London


References


Sources

* * * * * * * Colvin, Howard, "A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects: 1600 to 1840", 1954 * Gotch, A J, "Inigo Jones", 1968. * * * * * * * *


External links

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Biography of Inigo Jones
Royal Institute of British Architects.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

"An Early Drawing by Inigo Jones and a monument in Shropshire"
The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 115, No. 843, June 1973
Inigo Jones
at the National Portrait Gallery, London
Inigo Jones' Tulip Stairs, Queen's House, Greenwich
photo gallery at
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* H. Flitcroft, H. Hulsbergh, I. Cole, P. Fourdrinier, "The designs of Inigo Jones : consisting of plans and elevations for publick and private buildings", 1727 {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Inigo 1573 births 1652 deaths 16th-century English architects 17th-century English architects Architects from London People from the City of London Theatre in England