The Kings Arcadia - Inigo Jones and the Stuart Court - A quatercentenary exhibition held at the Banqueting House, Whitehall in 1973

Published to mark the exhibition honouring the 400th anniversary of Inigo Jones's birth, this book aims to rediscover and redefine him within his own age. Often he is viewed as a fragmented personality, depending upon whether one's main interest his in his achitectural or theatrical achievements. This exhibition and book have employed experts in both fields and attempts to reestablish him as a single figure. For Jones a court masque was as important and as significant as a building, for both were direct expressions of the harmonic principles which governed his creations. Here one finds a thorough examination of Inigo Jones as architect, painter, engineer, designer, connoisseur, collector, author, theoretician and intellect....