Inigo Jones

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Queen's House at Greenwich, London; designed by Inigo Jones.

Interior of the Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace, London; designed by Inigo Jones.

Figure 36: Double Cube Room at Wilton, Wiltshire, designed by Inigo jones, c. 1649

Design by Inigo Jones for a procession in The Masque of Augures

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A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

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An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.

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Born	July 15, 1573 • Smithfield • England
Died	June 21, 1652 (aged 78) • London • England
Movement / Style	Jacobean age • Palladianism • Stuart style

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Raphael

Italian painter and architect

Andrea Palladio

Italian architect

William Hunter Kendal

British actor and manager

Guarino Guarini

Italian architect, priest, mathematician, and theologian

Jules Hardouin-Mansart

French architect

Erté

Russian designer

Juan Guas

Spanish architect

Claude Gillot

French painter, engraver, and theatrical designer

Jacob van Campen

Dutch architect

Peter Harrison

British architect

John Wood the Elder

English architect

John Wood the Younger

British architect

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

American architect

José Benito Churriguera

Spanish architect

Andrés Duany

American architect

Donato Bramante

Italian architect

Le Corbusier

Swiss architect

Leon Battista Alberti

Italian architect and author

Filippo Brunelleschi

Italian architect

Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach

Austrian architect

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