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Queen's House at Greenwich, London; designed by Inigo Jones. Richard Wright
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Queen’s House

palace, Greenwich, London, United Kingdom

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    • Greenwich, London
      In Greenwich

      Inigo Jones’s Queen’s House, the first Palladian-style building in England, was commissioned as a residence for Anne of Denmark; it was completed in the 1630s for Queen Henrietta Maria, consort of Charles I. The house was later converted into a school (1806), and two new wings were…

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design and work of

    • Jones
      • In Inigo Jones

        …first important undertaking was the Queen’s House at Greenwich, based to some extent on the Medici villa at Poggio a Caiano, near Florence, but detailed in a style closer to Palladio or Vincenzo Scamozzi (1552–1616). Work there was suspended on the death of Queen Anne in 1619 and completed only…

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    • Wright
      • In Richard Wright

        …ceiling installation (2016) at the Queen’s House, part of the Royal Museums Greenwich, London.

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