House of the banquets
The house of the banquets to Whitehall is a building famous with London formerly part of the Palais of Whitehall, drawn by the Architecte Inigo Jones in 1619, and supplemented in 1622 with the assistance of John Webb. It is located close to the Palais of Westminster.
It contains only one part out of two levels with paintings by Rubens, which were ordered by Charles I in 1635, to fill the boxes of the ceiling. The house of the banquets introduces a style Architecture Italian Rebirth in England which used Flemish engravings mannerists. The roof is very except dish and surrounded by balustrades. Side of the street are a series of columns Corinthian and ionic to the top of a Piédestal.
It was envisaged to join this house with the remainder of the palate but the tensions of the civil war empêcherent it. Later the isolated position preserved it large fire which destroys the palate.
In 1685 this building was the first with being equipped with Verre crown in its windows.
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