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Inigo Jones, ‘Vitruvius Britannicus’

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Vaughan Hart
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In July 1650 the Puritans tore down the statues of the two Stuart kings, James I and Charles I, which crowned the portico on the west front of St Paul’s Cathedral in London (Fig. 1). According to one contemporary report, under the new Republican authorities the portico’s Corinthian columns, which had been erected only a few years earlier by Inigo Jones (1573-1652), were ‘shamefully hewed and defaced’. Clearly his architecture, or certain forms of it, did not enjoy immunity from the Puritan animosity directed at royalist and religious iconography during the Civil War and its aftermath. This conflict had brought to a head the underlying religious tensions and related aesthetic sensitivities that Jones had had to respect throughout his career popularizing the antique (or all’antica) style of building. The Orders had run the obvious risk of being interpreted as foreign, pagan or — worst of all — Popish, at least by Puritans, and as such they required reconciling to English sensitivities and national identity.

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Architectural History , Volume 53 , 2010 , pp. 1 - 39
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29 Ben Jonson, ‘To Penshurst’ (c. 1612), lines 1-3 (Works (1925-52), 11, p. 33). See McClung, William Alexander, The Country House in English Renaissance Poetry (Berkeley and London, 1977)Google Scholar. See also Mowl, Tim and Earnshaw, Brian, Architecture without Kings: The rise of Puritan Classicism under Cromwell (Manchester, 1995), esp. pp. 59–71 Google Scholar.

30 See Phillips, John, The Reformation of Images: Destruction of Art in England, 1555-1660 (Berkeley, 1973), esp. pp. 121–40 Google Scholar; Aston, Margaret, England’s Iconoclasts (Oxford, 1988)Google Scholar; Duffy, Eamon, The Stripping of the Altars (London and New Haven, 1992)Google Scholar; Peacock, , Stage Designs, pp. 36-37 Google Scholar; Spraggon, Julie, Puritan Iconoclasm during the English Civil War: the Attack on Religious Imagery by Parliament and its Soldiers (Woodbridge, 2003)Google Scholar.

31 ‘Roman Sketchbook’, Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth, fol. 76r. See Inigo Jones’s Roman Sketchbook, ed. Edward Chaney, 2 vols (London, 2006), 2, pp. 167-68.

32 Giulio Romano’s column rustication (as used at the Palazzo del Tè) is referred to by Jones in his copy of Palladio’s/quattro libri, Book II, p. 12: ‘Coll[umn] Caprittio di Julio Romano’, pp. 13, 14, 22. He would have witnessed this whilst in Mantua in 1614, making notes on the Palazzo del Tè in his copy of Vasari’s Lives. Both copies are held at Worcester College, Oxford.

33 See, for example, Carlo Maderno’s façade of Sta Susanna, Rome (1597-1603). On the emerging Baroque, however, see Worsley, Giles, Inigo Jones and the European Classicist Tradition (New Haven and London, 2007), p. 24 Google Scholar; Carpo, Mario, ‘The Architectural Principles of Temperate Classicism’, Res, 22 (1992), p. 149 Google Scholar; Randall, Catharine, Building Codes: The Aesthetics of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe (Philadelphia, 1990)Google Scholar.

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35 Spraggon, Puritan Iconoclasm, p. 52.

36 Gurnay, Edmund, Gurnay Redivivus, or an Appendix unto the Homily against Images in Churches (London, 1660 edn.), pp. 8, 20–23, 59 Google Scholar.

37 See Peacock, Stage Designs, p. 98.

38 Shute’s illustrations of the Orders would have been understood by contemporaries as equivalent to moral emblems, or ‘trikes and devises’ (sig. Aijr) as he called the architectural drawings which he brought back from Italy. See Mark Girouard, Robert Smythson and The Elizabethan Country House (New Haven and London, 1983), p. 27.

39 On five ‘Towers of the Orders’ (Burghley House, Lincolnshire; Stoneyhurst, Lancashire; Merton College, Oxford; Hatfield House, Hertfordshire; and Old Beaupre, Glamorganshire), see Girouard, Mark, Elizabethan Architecture: Its Rise and Fall, 154.0-1640 (New Haven and London, 2009), pp. 311–16 Google Scholar.

40 Dedication in Chapman, George, The Divine Poem of Musaeus (London, 1616)Google Scholar. On this, see Anderson, Christy, Inigo Jones and the Classical Tradition (Cambridge, 2007), pp. 136–37 Google Scholar.

41 Wotton, , Elements, pp. 121–22 Google Scholar. See Thomas, , ‘English Protestantism’, p. 224 Google Scholar.

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43 Ibid., p. 37.

44 I Corinthians, chap. 5, vs. i and xii. See Hersey, George, The Lost Meaning of Classical Architecture (Cambridge, 1988), p. 66 Google Scholar.

45 Wotton, Elements, p. 38.

46 Ibid., p. 36.

47 On agreement between Jones and Wotton, see Wittkower, Rudolf, Palladio and English Palladianism (London, 1974), p. 143 Google Scholar; Harris, Eileen and Savage, Nicholas, British Architectural Books and Writers 1556-1785 (Cambridge, 1990), p. 502 Google Scholar.

48 Wotton, , Elements, p. 115 Google Scholar.

49 See Harris, and Higgott, , Inigo Jones, p. 84 Google Scholar: ‘Jones did not return from Italy in 1615 ready to be the full-fledged British Palladio or Vitruvius. There was a need to settle in, and to assess his new role as Surveyor of the King’s Works’. See also Tavernor, Robert, Palladio and Palladianism (London, 1991), pp. 125–26 Google Scholar.

50 Summerson, John, Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830 (Harmondsworth, 1993 edn.), pp. 61–80 Google Scholar; See Girouard, Robert Smythson; Girouard, Elizabethan Architecture.

51 See Howard, Deborah, Scottish Architecture: Reformation to Restoration, 1560-1660 (Edinburgh, 1995), p. 31 Google Scholar. See also Thomas, , ‘English Protestantism’, p. 229 Google Scholar.

52 The portico has much-simplified Corinthian columns and cornice (almost a ‘decorated’ Doric capital), possibly in reference to the established Elizabethan iconography of kingship and to Solomon’s temple, upon which the chapel was based. See Howard, , Scottish Architecture, p. 33 Google Scholar; MacKechnie, Aonghus, ‘James VI’s Architects and their Architecture’, in The Reign of James VI, ed. Goodare, Julian and Lynch, Michael (East Linton, 2000), pp. 154–69 Google Scholar.

53 See Willson, David Harris, King James VI and I (London, 1956), pp. 217–42 Google Scholar; Coward, Barry, The Stuart Age: A History of England, 1603-1714. (London, 1980), pp. 104–31 Google Scholar.

54 See Coward, Stuart Age, p. 111.

55 The elevation of the Star Chamber with its Corinthian pilasters is a revised scheme in John Webb’s hand from Jones’s design (of which only a plan remains): Harris and Higgott, Inigo Jones, p. 98, cat. no. 29 and fig. 31.

56 As engraved in Catani, Baldi, La Pompa funerale di Papa Sisto il Quinto (Rome, 1591), pl. 24 Google Scholar; see Peacock, ‘Jones’s Catafalque’, pp. 1-5. Peacock, Stage Designs, p. 31 notes, ‘The inwardness of the statement shows how deeply [Jones’s] ideals are marked, culturally and aesthetically, by Protestantism’. See also Harris and Higgott, Inigo Jones, pp. 186-87; Higgott, Gordon, ‘“Varying with Reason”: Inigo Jones’s Theory of Design’, Architectural History, 35 (1992), pp. 69–70 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

57 On the Queen’s House, see Bold, John, Greenwich: An Architectural History of the Royal Hospital for Seamen and the Queen’s House (New Haven and London, 2000), p. 52 Google Scholar. See also Higgott, Gordon, ‘The Design and setting of Inigo Jones’s Queen’s House, 1616-40’, The Court Historian, 11.2 (2006), pp. 135–48 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Higgott, Gordon, ‘Inigo Jones’s Designs for the Queen’s House in 1616’, in The Renaissance Villa in Britain 1500-1700, ed. Airs, Malcolm and Tyack, Geoffrey (2007), pp. 140–66 Google Scholar.

58 Harris, and Higgott, , Inigo Jones, p. 66 Google Scholar, cat. no. 13. See Bold, , Greenwich, p. 45 Google Scholar. This attribution has been questioned, however, in Higgott, ‘The Design and Setting’, p. 138.

59 Held at the RIBA Library Drawings Collection, London; see also Bold, John, John Webb: Architectural Theory and Practice in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford, 1989), p. 25 Google Scholar, fig. 9; Harris and Higgott, Inigo Jones, p. 70.

60 Harris and Higgott, Inigo Jones, p. 70, fig. 19.

61 Ibid., Inigo Jones, pp. 68, 70, cat. nos 14,15.

62 National Archives, Kew, AOI/356/2487; see Harris and Higgott, Inigo Jones, p. 66.

63 The drawing is lost; see Harris and Higgott, Inigo Jones, p. 226, fig. 67.

64 Sebastiano Serlio, Book IV, fol.158v; see Sebastiano Serlio on Architecture, 2 vols, trans. Vaughan Hart and Peter Hicks (New Haven and London, 1996 and 2001), 1, p. 320.

65 Harris and Higgott, Inigo Jones, pp. 228-35, cat. nos 72-76. On the sumptuous interior, see Bold, Greenwich, pp. 38, 62-76.

66 Harris and Higgott, Inigo Jones, pp. 103-05, cat. nos 30, 31.

67 The measurements on the elevation indicate that it was for a front façade of 70 feet, exactly the reported measurements of the building in a Parliamentary Survey of the building in 1649; see ibid., p. 103.

68 See ibid., pp. 101-02.

69 Inigo Jones, The MOST NOTABLE ANTIQUITY OF GREAT BRITAIN, Vulgarly called STONE-HENG, ON SALISBURY PLAIN, RESTORED (London, 1655), pp. 89-90.

70 Jones in Palladio, I quattro libri, Book IV, chapter 6, p. 14.

71 Gardiner,, Samuel Prince Charles and the Spanish Marriage 1617-1623: A Chapter of English History (London, 1869), 1, p. 29 Google Scholar.

72 Chettle, George, ‘Marlborough House Chapel’, Country Life, 84 (1938), pp. 450–53 Google Scholar; Harris, John, Orgel, Steven and Strong, Roy, The King’s Arcadia: Inigo Jones and the Stuart Court (London, 1973), p. 123 Google Scholar. See also Leapman, Michael, Inigo: The Troubled Life of Inigo Jones, Architect of the English Renaissance (London, 2003), pp. 211–12 Google Scholar.

73 Generally the Corinthian dominated Catholic church-building from Constantine onwards. See Onians, John, Bearers of Meaning: The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance (Cambridge, 1988), pp. 310–12 Google Scholar; Palme, Triumph of Peace, p. 20.

74 The window is almost certainly original to Jones’s design (see Harris et al., King’s Arcadia, p. 124). See also Worsley, Inigo Jones, pp. 138-39, 153-54.

75 See the plan in Colvin, Howard, The History of the King’s Works (London, 1963-82), 5, p. 246 and pl. 25 Google Scholar.

76 See Henry Flitcroft’s longitudinal section (c. 1720s: Harris and Higgott, Inigo Jones, pp. 182-83, cat. no. 51), Jones’s elevation for the closet chimneypiece and over-mantel (1624-25: ibid., pp. 184-85, cat. no. 52), and Johannes Kip’s engraving of the chapel interior (c. 1686: ibid., p. 184, fig. 51).

77 Colvin, King’s Works, 4, p. 249.

78 Only four drawings by Jones can be ascribed with certainty to the Somerset House chapel; Harris and Higgott, Inigo Jones, pp. 198-203, 322, cat. nos 59, 60, 61, 123): a plan and elevation for an external window surround, a sketch elevation for a niche, the elevation of a tabernacle frame, and an outline section of the chapel. See Thurley, Simon, Somerset House: The Palace of England’s Queens 1551-1692 (London Topographical Society, Publication no. 168, London, 2009), esp. pp. 45–56 Google Scholar.

79 In his Vitruvius at Book IV, p. 163, Jones referred to his design for an architrave at Somerset House in relation to an Arundel marble (a fragment of temple frieze) with gorgons’ heads (this marble was excavated on the site of Arundel House and is the same as that depicted by Van Dyck in the ‘Continence of Scipio’, painted for the Duke of Buckingham around 1621; see Harris et al., King’s Arcadia, p. 65).

80 The chapel was open to Catholic servants and their families. On the niche, see Simon Thurley, Somerset House, pp. 52-53; however, Harris and Higgott note: ‘Clearly it was, as inscribed, “without” or outside the chapel proper, […], “without” the chapel might mean in the Vestry House or vestibule behind the altar at the south end’ (Harris and Higgott, Inigo Jones, p. 200). Kip’s illustration of Somerset House in Britannia Illustrata (London, 1708) gives no information as to the chapel’s external appearance.

81 Harris and Higgott, Inigo Jones, p. 202.

82 Spraggon, Puritan Iconoclasm, pp. 229, 244.

83 See Harris and Higgott, Inigo Jones, pp. 198-99, cat. no. 59; see the plan in Colvin, King’s Works, 5, fig. 22.

84 See Onians, Bearers of Meaning, pp. 310-12.

85 Lines 273, 300-03. See Veevers, Elizabeth, Images of Love and Religion: Queen Henrietta Maria and Court Entertainments (Cambridge and New York, 1989), p. 141 Google Scholar.

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87 See Higgott, ‘“Varying with Reason”’, p. 69.

88 Jones in Serlio, Queen’s College Oxford, fol. 17r, line 8 (which he underlines); square brackets denote letters cut off by the trimming of the fore-edge of the volume (I am grateful to Gordon Higgott for this information). See Higgott, , ‘“Varying with Reason”’, pp. 51–77 Google Scholar.

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93 See Downs, Arthur Channing, ‘Inigo Jones’s Covent Garden: The First Seventy-Five Years’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 26 (1967), pp. 12–13 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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98 See Palme, Triumph of Peace; Hart, Vaughan and Tucker, Richard, ‘“Immaginacy set free”: Aristotelian Ethics and Inigo Jones’s Banqueting House at Whitehall’, Res, 39 (2002), pp. 151–67 Google Scholar.

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102 See Wittkower, ‘Puritanissimo Fiero’, pp. 50-51. See also Leapman, Troubled Life, pp. 18-19. Horace Walpole and most of the later biographers of Jones have stated that he was a Roman Catholic. Walpole’s authority was probably a note in one of George Vertue’s notebooks: ‘Dr Harwood from Sr. Christ. Wren, says that Inigo Dy’d at Somersett House in the Strand, a Roman Catholick, that he was put apprentice to a joiner in Pauls church yard’. See ‘Verrue Note Books: Volume 1’, Walpole Society, 18 (1930), p. 105; see also Notes and Queries, 178 (1940), p. 292.

103 Quoted by Wittkower, ‘Puritanissimo Fiero’, pp. 50-51.

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109 Dugdale, History (1716 edn.), p. 115. See also p. 148.

110 Calendar of State Papers Domestic, 1650 [London, (1876)], p. 261.

111 According to a report in the royalist Newspaper Mercurius Rusticus, the king’s swords were broken off, a cross from the globe in Charles’s hand was severed and his crown slashed. Mercurius Rusticus was re-published as Bruno Ryves, Angliae Ruina or England’s Ruine represented in the barbarous and sacrilegious outrages of the sectaries of this kingdome (London, 1647/8 edn.), see p. 233.

112 Worsley, Inigo Jones, pp. 129-32 (citing the portico at St Paul’s).

113 Dugdale, History (1658 edn.), p. 140.

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118 See ibid., pp. 72-73, 81-98.

119 The high altar in the Henry VII chapel at Westminster Abbey, erected by Pietro Torregiano in 1522 with Corinthian columns and pilasters, was destroyed around December 1643; see Sandford, Francis, A Genealogical History of the Kings of England and Monarchs of Great Britain (London, 1677), p. 471 Google Scholar.

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121 In 1676 Wren described the site of the old palace as a ‘vacant yard’; see Colvin, King’s Works, 5, p. 214.

122 See Colvin, King’s Works, 4, p. 249. This screen does not appear in Henry Flitcroft’s section of the early 1720s. See also Spraggon, Puritan Iconoclasm, p. 95.

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