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notices of both livinc; iind dece;ised artists of every class, and wliicb, 

 wlien completed, will contain several tliousand articles, makes no 

 mention of Ginseppe Marvuglia, the architect of the beautiful Ora- 

 torio deU'Olivella, at Palermo, Cgiven in Zanth and Hittortf's Ar- 

 chil. Mod. de la Sicilc), nor have 1 been able to discover elsewhere 

 any fnrther mention of him, consequently, have no clue to even an ap- 

 proximating date for the time of his death. Though his journey was 

 professedly an architectural one, Woods does not even mention the 

 building at all ; and inileed, as far as recent Italian arcliitecture is con- 

 cerned, the art might be supposed to be now altogether extinct in that 

 country, judging from the dogged silence of all our later travellers and 

 tourists in regard to it, for though some of them bore ns with common 

 Guide-book remarks on Palladio, scarcely one of them appears to have 

 been aware of the existence of a Marvuglia, a Calderari, or a Cagnola, 

 or of such living nobodies as Buonsignore, fiianchi, Canonica, Cauina, 

 and — not to go through the whole alphabet, numerous others, wliose 



names ought now to be tolerably familiar to us here at home — at least 

 to those engaged in architectural studies, and caring to be an, courant 

 ditjoitr in the history of the art. What is still more extraordinary is, 

 that where buildings are noticed, or even fully described as in Fiirs- 

 ter's Bauzeitung, there is frccpiently not either date or architect's 

 name to assist the future historian. 



As far as it goes, the present table aflbrJs a chronological synopsis 

 that nvay be useful for reference, and for occasionally refreshing the 

 memory. A similar one of buildings erected within the same period, 

 might be drawn up as an accompaniment to, or skeleton of, architec- 

 tural liistory during the last and present century ; but it would be 

 greatly more extensive, and in fact, there ought to be a separate table 

 of the kind for each country. In the meanwhile, I am content to offer 

 this specimen, and should any correspondent be able to suggest any 

 additions, or tix any dates here left in uncertainty, I should feel obliged 

 by his dohig so. 



CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF ARCHITECTS WHO DIED IN THE 18th AND 19th CENTURIES. 



Wmerk the precise date of an arcliitect's death could not In; ascertained, it is indicated by ad. (about). An asterish * is prefixed to the names of those 

 who have distinguished themselves, not as architects, Ijut as writers on architecture, &c. The names of places in Italics denote that the architect was 

 chiefly eiuployed there. 



