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the gardens. The most eminent sculptors, 

 also, who of course understood all the prin- 

 ciples of design, if not of painting, embel- 

 lished those gardens with statues, fountains, 

 vases, &c. ; and where men so skilled in their 

 different lines, and with such exalted ideas 

 of art in general were employed, they would 

 hardly suffer mean and discordant parts to 

 be mixed with their works. 



Among the earlier painters, Michael An- 

 gelo, Raphael, and Giulio Romano, w r ere ar- 

 chitects as well as painters. I do not happen 

 to know whether the house at the Villa 

 D'Este was designed by M. Angelo, but 

 (what is much more to my purpose) he is 

 generally supposed to have planted the 

 famous cypresses in the garden of that Villa. 

 Raphael, 1 believe, gave one part of the de- 

 sign for the Villa Madama, and might pos- 

 sibly have been consulted about its accom- 

 paniments : for as the little grotesques with 

 birds, insects, flowers, trellices, and all the 

 minute ornaments of the Loggia were de- 

 signed under his eye, and serve to accom- 

 pany his sublime historical compositions, 



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