Banqueting House, Whitehall
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The Banqueting House is the sole surviving component of the vanished Palace of Whitehall, designed by Inigo Jones in the 1620s and among the first purely classical buildings in England. Its great hall is crowned by a ceiling of nine canvases painted by Peter Paul Rubens, glorifying the reign of James I. In 1649 King Charles I stepped from a window here onto the scaffold where he was executed. The double-cube proportions and Palladian restraint made it influential on later British architecture.
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