Centuries of influence: Rediscovering Palladio Nov 8, 2008
This was not the only example of appropriation early in Palladio's career, as Inigo Jones, Palladio's admirer and first promoter in England, bears witness. The Vicentine Palazzo Thiene was principally designed by Giulio Romano, "yet Palladio sets yt downe as his owne," noted Jones around 1613-14, in the margins of his own copy of Palladio's "Four Books of Architecture.". (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Rubens masterpiece, The Apotheosis of James I, is saved for the UK Oct 10, 2008
The 17th-century Flemish artist painted his masterpiece for his monumental scheme of ceiling paintings in the Banqueting House one of the crowning glories of the architect Inigo Jones. The Banqueting House and his ceiling are all that remain of the original Whitehall Palace one of the largest palaces of northern Europe which was destroyed by fire in 1698. (Times Online)
Showing an architect's signs of genius Sep 14, 2008
There are 80 drawings by Palladio, architectural designs by Michelangelo, Inigo Jones, and Le Corbusier, and paintings from El Greco, Titian, Van Dyck, and Canaletto, along with 30 architectural models. The exhibit's curator has labored for years to get it right. (Boston Globe)
Change and loss Jun 21, 2008
Her dissertation focused on the Italian palazzo as imagined by Jacobean playwrights in England, a theme that she "just cobbled together over the years. What interested me most was the sense of cultural exchange: people such as Inigo Jones going to Italy." The British importation of Palladian architecture showed her "how the face of a country can fundamentally change as a result of just a handful of people going over and touring." There was "an obsession with Italy at that time, but also a... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Circle of life Apr 1, 2008
The medieval historian Geoffrey of Monmouth said Merlin flew the stones in; the architect Inigo Jones drew it as a Druid temple; contemporary pagans believe it is a centre of magic. If the excavation bears out Wainwright and Darvill's ideas, it would blow out of the water the rival theory of their colleague, the equally distinguished archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson, who after excavating at nearby Woodhenge is convinced his site was a henge for the living, and Stonehenge the abandoned realm of... (Guardian Unlimited)
Maritime Time in Greenwich, London Jun 29, 2007
Also a part of the Museum is Queen's House, which was begun by Inigo Jones in 1616 for the wife of King James I, Queen Anne of Denmark. Today the Queen's House is an art gallery, with changing exhibitions. (Suite101.com)
- Alexander Chancellor Jan 5, 2007
His home is one of two 17th-century pavilions, attributed to Inigo Jones, that he bought in 1954 for 3,500 and eventually passed on to me. The pavilion he lives in was originally built as a chapel, attached to a country house that was destroyed by fire in the 1880s, but it has since been converted into a dwelling with a big sitting-room and four little bedrooms above it, reached by a metal spiral staircase that once served as a fire escape in Birmingham. (Guardian Unlimited)
