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The architect Inigo Jones was never knowingly undersold

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In 1600 #MariedeMedici exposed the 4000 influencers of the age to #opera at her wedding to KingHenriIV of France ⚜️ The opera #Eurydice by Jacopi Perri told the story of #Orpheus through a confluence of all art forms - #music #theatre #art #fashion #architecture - It was the first time the female voice had been heard in public & Triggered the cultural opulence of the #Baroque celebrating the talent of women & LGBTQ ⚜️ From -1603 #British & #Irish were the most enthusiastic opera Audiences in Europe. Opera #costumes inspired #fashions & #shakespeare lover #inigojones was the most celebrated opera #costumemaker of the age with audiences attending operas for the flamboyant splendour of his sets & costumes as much as the singing. @englishnationalopera @daniellismore will express his genius in the costumes for #maskoforpheus by #harrisonbirtwistle (at London Coliseum) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3sWIVwA_V7/?igshid=8z4vysx9iod1

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Mad Geometry - Whitehall Palace - Inigo Jones 1619

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#queenshouse designed by Britain’s first formally trained architect #InigoJones court favourite & lover of #SirFrancisBacon #Shakespeare & #KingJamesI - commissioned by Queen Anna (wife of the first openly #gay King James I ) in 1616. Anna was known as the dancing Queen & like all the Stuart Queen she was very hands-on when it came to staging #plays #masques #ballets & #Operas - visiting dignitaries were bemused & delighted by Anna & James playing the leading roles in Performances. Anna loved to dance & descriptions of her leaping & spinning across the stage, tossing her husband the king & princes in the air astonished visiting royals - it was a long way from the rigid formality & brutality of the court of Queen ElizabethI & her obsession with bear baiting as entertainment- for despite revisionist #historians Elizabeth had no taste for theatre or ballet & it wasn’t until 1603 that Sir Francis Bacon, Shakespeare & subversive women & #lgbtqsupport such as #MaryWroth Could finally publish their work. Unfortunately Anna never got to dance in the Queens house as funds ran low. The arrival of 15 year old heiress Queen Henry - wife of CharlesI & Daughter of French Queen Marie de Medici - Mother of the Baroque ⚜️ Queen Henry arrived with plenty of funds to complete the work and the rest are new #artists composers singers - #VanDyck #artemisiagentileschi etc - Like Anna, Queen Henry didn’t mind getting her hands dirty, painting backdrops & stagesets & sewing costumes. The Stuart’s enthusiasm for the arts & pleasure transformed #Britain into the hub of the #Baroque @johndavidgusman @markogm @velveteccentric (at The Queen's House) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8giS4fAzUH/?igshid=wkopcdtv06ww

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The #Baroque celebrating the arts beauty & pleasure with @markogm @johndavidgusman @matty_r_pye roasting @daniellismore for bringing us together @royalmuseumsgreenwich Queens House created by Britain’s first formally trained architects #InigoJones (at The Queen's House) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8gXOPJAT7b/?igshid=10pppmu4vygul

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Inigo Jones

The first British architect to venture into the uses of the Vitruvian order, Inigo jones is attributed heavily with much of the revival of classical architectures features on the ground unlike Palladios distant inspiration from across the channel. Whilst evidently taking inspiration directly from the Italian, Inigo jones gave a British face to what was a European style for all intents and purposes, even if its origins were more than 2000 years ago in a vastly unrecognisable society to what Europe is in the modern era. Steven Parissien as so often visited on this subject has suggested the compatibility advantage jones had in gaining the attribution of launching architectural styles across Britain. Unlike Palladio he was English, the advantage was similar to that as to a roman citizen turn architect would be more revered by his peers than say a “barbarian” one. (Parissien.S,1994, p.78) Inigo, in and of himself was an example of the symbolic value instilled by the British ruling class in every aspect to ensure they radiated the right signals to the world. he represented  in his works the ‘grandiose political aspirations “ of England at the time and is the start of where we begin to see the British connecting themselves to the values of the ancients and displaying their intentions as well as ideology through the medium of architecture.

Section bibliography

Parissien.S, 1994, Palladian style, Kensington, Phaidon press ltd

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@homehouselondon the history of this building- if you want the history of your building in #mayfair or #stjames let me know. Created in 1640s by the #stuart #Medici dynasty with #inigojones & later in 1660s worlds first woman architect #ladyelizabethwilbraham & her pupil & engineer #christopherwren & #palladianised in 1700’s by #williamkent one of #handels lovers (like handel “Kentini”was part of #dorothysavile Duchess of Burlington & Corks salon #burlingtoncircle was hosted in #Burlingtonhouse now the @royalacademyarts in fact she created the first Burlington Arcade in 1725 although it was rebuilt in 1810 in its current form. There was an #oysterbar at the back of the house and it did irritate her that the chaps coming to and through such as handle swift and Alexander pope Brought the smell of #oystershells on their slippers - it has been fully rebuilt twice by the #grosvenorestate who have owned Mayfair since Thomas Grosvenor married Mary May Davies - Who Mayfair is named for! Dame May was a #Catholic Eccentric & her wild scandals created such havoc her family put her in a mental asylum for 40 years to stop her running off to Paris and marrying inappropriate #Irishmen though as an Irish woman, my Gran often lamented are there any appropriate #Irishmen ? 💜 (at Home House)