biography
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| (1573–1652)
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| biography:
| The first of the great English architects, born in London, UK. He studied landscape painting in Italy, and from Venice introduced the Palladian style into England. In 1606 James I employed him in arranging the masques of Ben Jonson, and he introduced the proscenium arch and movable scenery to the English stage. In 1615 he became surveyor-general of the royal buildings. He designed the Queen's House at Greenwich (1616–35), the Banqueting House in Whitehall (1619–22), and laid out Covent Garden and Lincoln's Inn Fields, all in London. |
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