Rosemary Hill
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Sep
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but certainly to build a new banqueting hall.
And that's what we have today, the banqueting hall that everyone knows with much less column interference and the great banqueting house ceiling painted by Rubens.
This extraordinary has been called the greatest Baroque ceiling north of the Alps, which, although it wasn't finished in James's lifetime, sets out James as king in something that
isn't quite Stonehenge but has a little bit of Stonehenge vibe about it.
This idea of an ancient Britannia, an ancient independent country, an independent, religiously independent country.
Inigo Jones is at the centre of the architectural
revival and, well, not so much revival, but this is the moment where England finally catches up with the Renaissance, which had been going on on the continent for ages.
And it happens with Inigo Jones, who traveled in Italy and came back
He'd started drawing.
We don't know.
His father was also called Imigo, and we don't really know why.
The Jones family had this attachment to this, in London at the time, very exotic Spanish name.
But maybe they had some continental connections.
It's extraordinary given how important Jones was, how little we know about his biography.
But anyway, he came back from the continent full of ideas about architecture, which was quite...
A new idea as such.
to be the royal architect meant to be surveyor general of the king's works, not architect.
And I think the most important thing to say about Jones's attitude to architecture and what he wanted for it, which is spelled out by John Webb, his pupil who took over from him, that there were people who didn't think that the architect was a gentleman.
And this is all about getting away from anything like manual labor.
which was implicit for some people in the idea of a surveyor, and establishing the idea of the architecture.
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