John Summerson
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LOCATION: London, United Kingdom
Curator, Sir John Soane's House and Museum, London, 1945–84. Author of Inigo Jones; Sir Christopher Wren; and others.
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Inigo Jones was a British painter, architect, and designer who founded the English classical tradition of architecture. The Queen’s House (1616–19) at Greenwich, London, his first major work, became a part of the National Maritime Museum in 1937. His greatest achievement is the Banqueting House…
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