Inigo Jones and the European Classicist Tradition

by Giles Worsley

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300117299
• ISBN13: 9780300117295
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.0" x 11.2"