Inigo's Stones: Inigo Jones, Royal Marbles and Imperial Power

摘要

Although Inigo Jones used many types of building materials, there can be no doubt that the material closest to his heart was stone.Witness his admiration for Rome's ruins, all built with it, and his intricate study of the Orders. The columns, as Sebastiano Serlio made clear, seemed to have been especially created to express stone's apparently contradictory qualities, its delicacy yet strength, crudeness yet refinement.