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Article: Fit for a queen: Remodelling of part of the Queen's House, Greenwich permits its use as a gallery and improves circulation without disturbing its seventeenth-century architecture. (Interior Design).(Brief Article)
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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The Queen's House in Greenwich was designed by Inigo Jones for Anne of Denmark, wife of James I. Built between 1616 and 1635 in the hunting grounds of the Tudor palace of Placentia, it was an essay in Jones's assured handling of Palladian style and proportion. In contrast to the rambling brick palace which, spread around three courtyards, was the haphazard enlargement of a fifteenth-century mansion, the Queen's House was cool and Classically ordered at the edge of wilderness. Pevsner observes that the building's chastity and bareness must have seemed as foreign to contemporary beholders, used to the entertaining elaborations of Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture, as ...
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