INTRODUCTORY. 



ii 





1 6. THE GARDEN FRONT AND BELVEDERE. 



tmi't'iit between the doss has been taken away. 



obtained, it is understood, from the 

 descendant of Palladio's friends 

 the Barbaro brothers of the Villa 

 Maser, the spot where, one tradition 

 asserts, the great master had ended 

 his days. 



Isaac Ware, who himself had 

 been to Italy, boasts of the advantage 

 of access to his lordship's cabinet 

 containing these treasured originals 

 while engaged in bringing out his 

 "Palladio" of 1738. Burlington 

 had accepted the dedication of 

 Hopper's "Palladio" of 1736, and 

 promoted the publication of Palladio's 

 drawings of the Roman thermae. 

 Burlington House was then the home 

 of a school of architects, which in- 

 cluded William Kent, Colin Camp- 

 bell, Flitcroft, Ware and the Italian 

 Leoni. Hogarth might rail and 

 caricature, but knowledge of Italy 

 became an essential of polite living. 

 To visit Vicenza and absorb the 

 rules of elegant building was a social 

 qualification. Lord Chesterfield 

 advised that three or four days 



17. INTERIOR OF THE LOGGIA- 



The sunblind casing is n Inter addition. 



