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OWEN JONES (1809-1874)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 500 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OWEN See also:JONES (1809-1874)  , See also:British architect and See also:art decorator,son of See also:Owen See also:Jones, a Welsh See also:antiquary, was See also:born in See also:London . After an See also:apprenticeship of six years in an architect's See also:office, he travelled for four years in See also:Italy, See also:Greece, See also:Turkey, See also:Egypt and See also:Spain, making a See also:special study of the See also:Alhambra . On his return to See also:England in 1836 he busied himself in his professional See also:work . His forte was interior decoration, for which his See also:formula was: " See also:Form without See also:colour is like a See also:body without a soul." He was one of the superintendents of See also:works for the See also:Exhibition of 1851 and was responsible for the See also:general decoration of the Crystal See also:Palace at See also:Sydenham . Along with See also:Digby See also:Wyatt, Jones collected the casts of works of art with which the palace was filled . He died in London on the 19th of See also:April 1874 . Owen Jones was described in the Builder for 1874 as " the most potent apostle of colour that architectural England has had in these days." His range of activity is to be traced in his works: Plans, Elevations and Details of the Alhambra (1835-1845), in which he was assisted by MM . Goury and Gayangos; Designs for See also:Mosaic and Tesselated Pavements (1842) ; Polychromatic See also:Ornament of Italy (1845) ; An See also:Attempt to Define the Principles which regulate the Employment of Colour in Decorative Arts (1852); Handbook to the Alhambra See also:Court (1854); See also:Grammar of Ornament (1856), a very important work; One Thousand and One Initial Letters (1864); Seven See also:Hundred and Two Monograms (1864) ; and Examples of See also:Chinese Ornament (1867) .

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