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Banqueting House, Whitehall

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Charles I hired Rubens to paint the ceiling in honor of his father James I.  Charles also collected many paintings of the age including Van Dyck.  

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Banqueting House, Whitehall

The Banqueting House, Whitehall, London, is the grandest and best known survivor of the architectural genre of banqueting house, and the only remaining component of the Palace of Whitehall. The building is important in the history of English architecture as the first building to be completed in the neo-classical style which was to transform English architecture.

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