Inigo Jones and the European Classicist Tradition
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Giles Worsley
Inigo Jones and the European Classicist Tradition
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007
First printing
A re-assessment of the classical influences on Britain's great seventeenth century architect.
By comparing his contemporaries in France and Holland, Worsley shows how contemporary Jones was, while retaining a sophisticated mastery of symbolic power devices, such as the portico, 'Serliana' window and centrally planned villas.
Hardcover.
220 pages.