The Stage Designs of Inigo Jones
The Stage Designs of Inigo Jones
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USDThis lavishly illustrated book is the first full-length study of Inigo Jones as a stage designer. Jones' designs for the Stuart court masques played a crucial role in transmitting the visual language of the Italian Renaissance tradition into English culture, and John Peacock examines the ways in which he adapted them from continental sources, many of them identified here for the first time. His exploration adds a new dimension to our knowledge and understanding of a figure who is generally considered the most important English artist of the seventeenth century.
- A full-length study of Inigo Jones as a stage-designer
- Major contribution to the history of English court culture in the seventeenth century
- Lavishly illustrated
Reviews & endorsements
"In a persuasively argued, handsomely produced book, John Peacocok insists on the prominence of Inigo Jones as emissary of Continental art..." Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama
"Handsome, learned, richly detailed, and illuminating, John Peacock's book provides an intensive study of a specialized fiels and an important reassessment of Jones as architect, artist, and designer of masques." Essay in Theatre
"...handsomely-produced, lavishly-illustrated, and learned work....The chief value of this work lies in the wealth of its scholarly detail and in its analysis of the European context of Jones's work and the extraordinary qualities of Jones the theorist and designer." Alan R. Young, Comparative Drama
Product details
December 2006Paperback
9780521035002
412 pages
243 × 168 × 23 mm
0.655kg
193 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- List of plates
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: the court masque
- 1. The theory and practice of imitation
- 2. The masques as pictures
- 3. Architecture
- 4. Figures
- 5. Landscape
- 6. Ornament
- 7. Antiquity
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
