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Author’s NoteInigo Jones, 1573-1652, was the founder of the English Classical School of Architecture. He visited Italy and attracted the patronage of King Christian IV of Denmark, whose sister was married to King James I of England.
Jones’s greatest surviving buildings are the Banqueting Hall in Whitehall, the Queen’s House at Greenwich, the Queen’s Chapel in St. James’s Palace and the restoration of St. Paul’s Cathedral.
Sir Anthony Van Dyke, 1599-1641, was, after Rubens, the most promising Flemish painter of the seventeenth century. His enduring fame rests on his portraits.
He idolised his models without sacrificing any of their individuality. Their beautiful and expressive hands are characteristic of a genius.
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