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312: 212: 730:. While musicians may have played from this vantage point, its true purpose was to admit an audience; at the time of the Banqueting House's construction, kings still lived in "splendour and state", or publicly. The less exalted and the general public would be permitted to crowd the gallery in order to watch the king dine. The lower status of those in the gallery was emphasised by the lack of an internal staircase, the gallery only being accessible by an external staircase. The building was, however, later extended to accommodate an internal staircase. 764:. It became his ambition to find a comparable painter for his own court. Rubens while in England as a diplomat was asked to design and paint the Banqueting House ceiling which was sketched in London but completed at his studio in Antwerp due to the scale of the job. It was probably commissioned in 1629–30, and finally installed in 1636, the ceiling having been completely remodelled to frame the various sections. The subject, commissioned by the king, was the glorification of his father, titled 626: 304: 49: 2566: 734: 219: 503: 849:, was a particular favourite. Provincial architects began to recreate the motifs of the Banqueting House throughout England, with varying degrees of competence. Examples of the style's popularity can be found throughout England; the then-remote county of Somerset alone contains three 17th-century versions of the Banqueting House: 879:. Following the fire which destroyed Whitehall Palace, the Banqueting Hall became redundant for the purpose for which it was designed, and it was converted to a chapel to replace the Chapel Royal of Whitehall, which had been destroyed in the fire and was used to host concerts. It remained a chapel before being given to the 887:
in 1893. Highly controversial plans to partition the large mansion house space in the service of offices for the Institution were quickly dropped in favour of the creation of a museum which displayed personal items of famous commanders and included the skeleton of Napoleon's horse. The museum closed
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almost every English county was to have some buildings in the classical style. The Banqueting House and its features became much copied. A much-favoured motif was the placing of pediments above not only the focal point of a façade but also its windows. The use of alternating segmental and triangular
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In 1638, Jones drew the designs for a new and massive palace at Whitehall in which his banqueting house was to be incorporated as one wing enclosing a series of seven courtyards, visible on the monumental main façade as only a small flanking wing. These revealed the ideas behind Jones' concept of
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Although English architecture had been influenced, mostly indirectly, by Italian classicism for a century or so, resulting in the use of classical forms and motifs in late Tudor, Elizabethan and Jacobean buildings, on his return from Italy Jones brought with him far more thorough and up to date
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The building is on three floors: The ground floor, a warren of cellars and store rooms, is low; its small windows indicating by their size the lowly status and usage of the floor, above which is the double-height banqueting hall, which falsely appears from the outside as a first-floor
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Although Charles I lavished attention and effort on the Banqueting House, it was the scene of his death. On the afternoon of 30 January 1649, he stepped out of a first-floor window of Banqueting House onto the scaffold that had been erected outside for the purpose of
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Unlike the architecture of the more southern European countries, English architecture went through no period of evolution to classicism. Through Jones it arrived suddenly and fully formed. Before this, English architecture had still been based on the styles of the
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James I, for whom the Banqueting House was created, died in 1625 and was succeeded by his son, Charles I. The accession of Charles I heralded a new era in the cultural history of England. The new king was a great patron of the arts. He added to the
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described the building, with its timbered structure covered with canvas painted in imitation of stone, and a painted ceiling including the queen's devices and heraldry. The new building was intended as the venue for entertaining
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During Henry's reign, the palace had no designated banqueting house, the king preferring to banquet in a temporary structure purpose-built in the gardens. The Keeper of the Banqueting House was a position enhanced by
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at Greenwich is often referred to as England's first consciously classical building, its completion was delayed until 1635, some thirteen years after the completion of the Banqueting House. Halliday, p
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on 6 January 1617. The banqueting house was destroyed by fire in January 1619, when workmen, clearing up after New Year's festivities, decided to incinerate the rubbish or oil rags inside the building.
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The completed palace would have been 1,280 by 950 feet (390 by 290 m) and the central courtyard would have been twice the size of the courtyard of the Louvre. Fletcher, p 711 & 715
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in the 19th century, though the details of the original façade were faithfully preserved. Today, the Banqueting House is a national monument, open to the public and preserved as a
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was something of a misnomer. The hall within the house was, in fact, used not only for banqueting, but also royal receptions, ceremonies, and the performance of
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Inside the building is a single two-storey, double-cube room. The double-cube, in which the length of the room is twice its equal width and height, is another
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in February 1609 included "sundry seats above for the Queen and ladies to sit on and be turned round about". Alterations for staging masques were made by
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was performed in the Banqueting House on 1 November 1605 by the King's Players. One of the last functions in this structure was a banquet for the
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A contemporaneous German print showing the execution of Charles I on 30 January 1649 outside the Banqueting House, which is inaccurately depicted
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King James began building a new banqueting house in 1607, which was destined to only have a short life. The building was probably designed by
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In January 1698, the Tudor Palace was razed by fire that raged for 17 hours. All that remained was the Banqueting House, Whitehall Gate, and
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English Renaissance with a more pure, classical design, which made no attempt to harmonise with the Tudor palace of which it was to be part.
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beinge in Lengthe 110 foote, and in breadth 55 foote, the under story being arched 16 foote in haight, the upper story 55 foote highe
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mason who had trained in Holland. It has been said that, until this time, English sculpture resembled that described by the
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and encouraged the great painters of Europe to come to England. In 1623 he visited Spain where he was impressed by
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with a secondary floor above. The lower windows of the hall are surmounted by alternating triangular and segmental
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orders, the former above the latter, stand atop a high, rusticated basement and divide the seven bays of windows.
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Hart, V. (2002). '"Immaginacy set free": Aristotelian Ethics and Inigo Jones's Banqueting House at Whitehall',
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and was an allegory of his own birth. To the king's chagrin, Rubens took his knighthood and decamped back to
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was beheaded on a scaffold in front of it in January 1649. The building was controversially re-faced in
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were asked to design a new palace, but nothing came of the scheme. It has been said that the widowed
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and masks suggest the feasting and revelry associated with the concept of a royal banqueting hall.
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understanding of the underlying principles of late Renaissance classicism. With his work at the
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architecture of England, where Renaissance motifs were still filtered through the engravings of
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The design of the Banqueting House is classical in concept. It introduced a refined Italianate
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A more permanent Banqueting house was built at Whitehall in 1581, costing £1,744-19 shillings.
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made a drawing of the ground plan. An adjacent chamber was built to host events for the
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made a special auger to hollow out the columns. The interior was painted and gilded by
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Oliver Jones, 'Evidence for Indoor Theatre', Andrew Gurr & Farah Karim-Cooper,
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in June 1607, for which new linen was bought to dress the two cupboards of estate.
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The replacement Banqueting House was commissioned from the fashionable architect
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Moving Shakespeare Indoors: Performance and Repertoire in the Jacobean Playhouse
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in Greenwich, and the Banqueting House, Jones transformed English architecture.
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Wikimedia photograph of Banqueting House Junction in the forest of Nonsuch Park
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Europe's Indians, Indians in Europe: European Perceptions and Appropriations
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Former palace banqueting rooms, later chapel of Whitehall in London, England
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Survey of London: volume 13: St Margaret, Westminster, part II: Whitehall I
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in 1962, and the great south window, closed up by the RUSI, was restored.
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were brought before the king at the Banqueting House, at a performance of
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designers. The roof is essentially flat and the roofline is defined by a
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Edward Town, 'A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625',
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Today, the banqueting hall is open for tours and use as a venue space.
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Palaces of the Revolution, Life, Death & Art at the Stuart Court
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Palaces of the Revolution, Life, Death & Art at the Stuart Court
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outside Banqueting House following the defeat of Royalist forces.
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The overthrow of the monarch and establishment of the puritanical
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by designating it in relation to a building of the same name at
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wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V of the Palatinate
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The ceiling of this Elizabethan banqueting house, inherited by
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preferred to live elsewhere and eventually reconstructed
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Much of the work on the Banqueting House was overseen by
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style that was unparalleled in the free and picturesque
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intervened and the plans were permanently shelved. The
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John Orrell, 'Architecture of the Fortune Playhouse',
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The Language of Space in Court Performance, 1400-1625
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Banqueting House (disambiguation)

Banqueting house
Whitehall
Westminster
51°30′16″N 0°07′32″W / 51.5044°N 0.1256°W / 51.5044; -0.1256
Inigo Jones
Palladian
Historic Royal Palaces
Listed Building
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Banqueting House is located in Central London
Whitehall
City of Westminster
banqueting houses
Palace of Whitehall
Palladian architecture
English architecture
Inigo Jones
Andrea Palladio
£
Charles I of England
Portland stone
Grade I listed building
Historic Royal Palaces


Palace of Whitehall
Palace of Whitehall

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