INIGO JONES'S ARCHITECTURE AND STAGE SETS

  • The Banqueting house and its architecture

Inigo Jones designed the Banqueting House in London (1619-22), remarkable for its architecture and for its rectangular layout, which was intended to provide an auditorium for masques: the king and the audience at one end, the stage sets  opposite them, with single view-point  perspective best viewed from the king's throne.

see the website on historic royal palaces
  • The stage sets for the masques

Drawings by Inigo Jones for the sets and the costumes are now kept at Chatsworth (a country house in Derbyshire). Look at the perspective drawing 'Garden and Princely Villa' for Coelum Britannicum (1634)

see the Chatsworth website (What to see and do / Collection/ Photo library / Sample images / Drawings, engravings and book illustrations)