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obtained the famous collection of Palladio's drawings that was housed at Chiswick. 

 (Attain it is that this villa will strike those who know the work of the Burlington-Kent School 

 as something familiar. The character of the grouping, the arcades, the rural Italian idea behind 

 it all seem to have deeply impressed that group of English admirers of Palladio and Inigo Jones. 

 Palladio's drawings of the Roman baths, as published by Lord Burlington, appeared in 

 1730, soon after his lordship's return from his tour in Italy. Another volume of general 



designs was intended, but 



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never appeared. The 

 drawings are now in the 

 library of the Royal Insti- 

 tute of British Architects 

 by the courtesy of 

 the Dukes o f Devon- 

 shire, to whom the 

 Chiswick villa of Lord 

 Burlington descended. 



368. SECTION OF VILLA AT MASER, NEAR TREVISO. 



Cagliari or Paolo Veronese (1528 1588), in his best known title is perhaps the hero of the 

 villa. His brilliant decorative fancies are a permanent attraction, and volumes have been written 

 on the subject. They certainly seem to have influenced the French School of decorative painting. 

 To the architect they are very interesting, because the rendering of his art in the backgrounds 

 of the frescoes is so evidently inspired, if not directed, by Palladio. Cagliari 's brother seems 

 to have been an expert at perspective and, while somewhat heavy-handed as a painter himself, 

 to have been of the greatest assistance to his more brilliant, if mercurial, brother. Cagliari 

 seems to have had the temperament of Lawrence as compared with that of Reynolds. There 

 is a boyish simplicity about his statements in his famous interview with the Inquisition, who 

 were scandalised at his levity of composition in church pictures, that disarms criticism. It 



369. THE HEMICYCLE BEHIND THE VILLA WITH VITTORIA's STUCCOES. 



