Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
Architecture in England Remained a fledgling science until Inigo Jones's Italianate classicism burst forth in London in the first decades of the seventeenth century. His 1622 Banqueting House at Whitehall with its masterful double-cube interior astounded Londoners accustomed to the rabbit warren of Elizabethan apartments making up the surrounding Whitehall Palace; its rhythmic, subtly articulated marble façade clashed with the eclectic exteriors of neighboring buildings.
I am grateful for the early advice of Sir Roy Strong, John Dixon Hunt, and Ronald S. Berman, and the later assistance of T. K. Dunseath and William A. McClung.