24 John of Padua. 
from the Marchese Selvatico some particulars that throw considerable 
light upon the subject. The Marchese said:—“‘He could not 
find in their national documents or histories any mention exactly of 
an architect of that name: but there was a John Padova, of Milan, 
a scholar of Solari, a carver of figures in 1524; though no mention of 
his having gone to England. There was also a Giovanni Maria 
Padovan, very clever as a sculptor, a moulder and maker of medals, 
He wrote his name John Maria Patavinus.’ He worked in sculpture 
at Padua and at Venice, but of his being an architect nothing is 
said. It is, however (says the Marchese), not impossible that he 
was one, because all the eminent artists of the Revival Period were 
often well accomplished in all the three arts. As he was also em- 
ployed in 1548 by the King of Poland to construct a magnificent 
mausoleum, for which he was liberally rewarded, this would allow 
us to presume that he was also an able architect, seeing that the 
sepulchres of that period seldom consisted of sculpture only, but 
required to be constructed according to the rules of architecture.” 2 
Novel and most fanciful decorative work was precisely the sort 
that King Henry used in profusion at Nonsuch palace, so that if this 
Giovanni Maria, “a clever sculptor and moulder,” at Venice, was 
able, as he was, to supply King Henry with this, and also with zew 
music of the lighter sort for state concerts, we have in him at once 
the very qualifications for which Henry conferred an annual pension, 
as stated in the letters patent of 1544, viz., for having rendered, 
and intending to render, great service in architecture and new musical 
compositions. The Italian biographies, it is true, do not speak of 
his having gone to England; but this presents no difficulty: for an 
Italian residing at home might, in return for musical compositions, 
and architectural devices sent to England, receive English pay at 
Venice as easily as in London. 
Of the John Padova of Milan, mentioned above by the Marchese 
1 My. Rawdon Browne says, in a private letter:—“I believe the name of 
* Mosca,’ by which this man was generally known, was a surname, from his 
having built the Kremlin, and it then became a family name: but its architects 
could have had nothing to do with Longleat.” 
2 An engraving of this mausoleum, if there is one, would supply a specimen 
of the architectural taste of this “ John Maria Padovani.” 
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