Banqueting House
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 | Banqueting House |
| Designer | Inigo Jones |
| Location | London, England, United Kingdom |
| Date | 1619 to 1622 |
| Building Type | large house |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | Palladian, Late English Renaissance |
| Street Address | Whitehall Palace |
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| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Banqueting_House.html |
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Commentary
"...Jones built a new Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace for James I, to replace a previous one destroyed by fire. When the Banqueting House in London was completed, it bore no resemblance to anything ever built in England before....It consists of one great cubic room that served for royal receptions, ceremonies, and the performance of masques. The exterior elevation has three levels: a rusticated base; a first story with a series of windows crowned by alternating segmental and triangular pediments on brackets separated by engaged Ionic columns, and pilasters that are doubled at the ends of the building; and a second story with Corinthian columns and pilasters that correspond to those below, as do the windows (but with straight cornices), and with a garland swag tying the capitals together beneath the flat balustraded roof."
— Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. p378-9.
The ceiling inside the main hall was decorated by Peter Paul Rubens in 1625. Charles I paid the Flemish painter £3,000 to cover the ceiling in homage to his father. It is the only surviving ceiling painting by Rubens that is still in-situ, and consists of two canvases measuring 28x20ft, plus two others at 40x10ft.
Address
Whitehall, directly across from the Horse Guards, telephone: 930-4179.
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James Stevens Curl. Classical Architecture: an introduction to its vocabulary and essentials, with a select glossary of terms. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992. ISBN 0-442-30896-5. NA260.C87. exterior photo of street facade, f5.38, p124.
Sir Banister Fletcher. Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture. 18th ed., revised by J.C. Palmes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. ISBN 684-14207-4. NA200.F63. Discussed, p1003-1004. Drawings, p1005. Photo, p1006. The classic text of architectural history. Expanded 1996 edition available at Amazon.com
Cristine Flon, ed. The World Atlas of Architecture. London: Mitchell Beazley International, 1984. exterior color photo from the street. p300.
Yetsuh Frank, University of Oregon. Slide from photographer's collection, October 1993. PCD.2287.1022.1938.006. PCD.2287.1022.1938.005.
John Harris and Gordon Higgot. Inigo Jones, Complete Architectural Drawings. New York: A. Zwemmer Ltd., 1989. ISBN 0-302-00608-7. LC 88-062816. bottom photo on p109.
Johnson Architectural Images. Copyrighted slides in the Artifice Collection.
Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture, from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1986. ISBN 0-13-044702-1. NA200.T7. discussion p378-9. Available at Amazon.com
Doreen Yarwood. The Architecture of Europe. New York: Hastings House, 1974. ISBN 0-8038-0364-8. LC 73-11105. NA950.Y37. perspective drawing, fig688, p335. no image credit.
