Inigo Jones

by John Summerson

Book Overview

Inigo Jones was the first English classical architect, famous in his own time (he was nine years junior to Shakespeare) and the posthumous sponsor of the Palladianism of the 18th century. Sir John Summerson clears away a mass of legend in order to direct attention to the essential, basing a new assessment of his genius on the evidence of buildings and designs of undoubted authenticity. While the Queen's house at Greenwich and the famous Whitehall...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140208399
• ISBN13: 9780140208399
• Release Date: November 1983
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.