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Inigo Jones and the European Classicist Tradition
Giles Worsley
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Description for Inigo Jones and the European Classicist Tradition
Hardback. Provides a study on one of England's influential classical architects. This book surveys architecture in Italy, Germany, France and Netherlands, and reveals how many parallels there are on the Continent with Inigo Jones's work in England. It also studies Jones's buildings, in terms of their chronological development and the growing complexity. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 240 pages, 80 b/w + 120 color illus. BIC Classification: AMB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5601 x 7128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1276.
In this groundbreaking volume, conventional assumptions about one of England’s greatest and most influential classical architects are turned on their head. Traditionally, Inigo Jones has been looked upon as an isolated, even old-fashioned, figure in European architecture, still espousing the Palladian ideals of the 16th century when European contemporaries were turning to the Baroque. Yet an investigation of contemporary European architecture and of Jones’s buildings belies this impression, demonstrating that Jones must be viewed in the context of a European-wide, early-17th-century classicist movement.
Giles Worsley examines the full range of Jones’s architecture, from humble stable to royal palace. Worsley shows that ... Read more
In this groundbreaking volume, conventional assumptions about one of England’s greatest and most influential classical architects are turned on their head. Traditionally, Inigo Jones has been looked upon as an isolated, even old-fashioned, figure in European architecture, still espousing the Palladian ideals of the 16th century when European contemporaries were turning to the Baroque. Yet an investigation of contemporary European architecture and of Jones’s buildings belies this impression, demonstrating that Jones must be viewed in the context of a European-wide, early-17th-century classicist movement.
Giles Worsley examines the full range of Jones’s architecture, from humble stable to royal palace. Worsley shows that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300117295
SKU
V9780300117295
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About Giles Worsley
Giles Worsley was senior research fellow, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and architecture critic of the Daily Telegraph. He was the author of Classical Architecture in Britain: The Heroic Age, published by Yale University Press.
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