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Inigo Jones, born on the 15th of July 1573 in Smithfield, London, was the first significant architect in England in the early modern era. He was the first person to introduce the classical architecture of Rome and the Italian Renaissance to England, and he is regarded as the father of British architecture.
Jones designed the Queen's House at Greenwich, completed in 1635 as the first strictly classical building in England; the Banqueting House in the Palace of Whitehall, built between 1619 and 1622; the Queen's Chapel at St James's Palace, built between 1623 and 1627; and the Covent Garden square, including St Paul's, Covent Garden, the first wholly classical church in England.
Jones is credited with introducing movable scenery and the proscenium arch to English theatre, working under the patronage of Queen Anne of Denmark. Between 1605 and 1640, he staged more than 500 performances and invented techniques including the use of coloured glasses and oiled paper to control stage lighting.
Jones and the playwright Ben Jonson collaborated on masques for approximately fifteen years but had a prolonged rivalry over whether the visual spectacle or the written word was more important in theatre. Jonson ridiculed Jones in a series of published works written over two decades.
Jones's career effectively ended when the English Civil War broke out in 1642 and royal houses were seized in 1643. He was captured at the third siege of Basing House in October 1645, and his property was not returned to him until around 1646. He died on the 21st of June 1652.
Jones was most deeply influenced by the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, whose book I quattro libri dell'architettura he owned in an annotated Italian copy. He also drew on the ancient Roman writer Vitruvius, and on the architects Vincenzo Scamozzi, Alfonso Parigi, and Giulio Parigi.