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Art in Great Britain and Ireland (1913)

Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 110

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FIG. 171.—WHITEHALL. CENTRAL BLOCK OF NORTH FRONT, AS DESIGNED BY INIGO JONES. CHAPTER VIII THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE-INIGO JONESAND SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN The beginning of Renaissance architecture in England as a definite,reasoned-out method of design dates from the first works of InigoJones. Jones… … became Surveyor-General of theWorks, and not until 1619 thathe made his first scheme for therebuilding of the Palace of White-hall. This first project was thecomparatively modest Palace de-signed for James I, to be elabo-rated many years later into themagnificent conception completedfor Charles I,…

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