Inigo Jones and the European Classicist Tradition - Hardcover

Worsley, Giles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300117299 ISBN 13: 9780300117295

Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre, 2007

Synopsis

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 key motifs that have been seen as proof of Jones’s Palladian loyalties―particularly the Serliana, the portico, and the centrally planned villa―have a much older and deeper meaning as symbols of sovereignty. The book transforms our understanding not only of Inigo Jones but also of the architecture of his time.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0300117299
• ISBN 13: 9780300117295
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240