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chosen to introduce, of the same aerial kind. 

 Rubens, in his garden, has represented the 

 entrance to a sort of pavilion ; the general 

 character of which, and all the particular 

 parts and ornaments are so massive, that if a 

 palace of the Gnomes were to be repre- 

 sented, this might serve for its portal. 



But although in this and other instances 

 his buildings may justly be charged with 

 heaviness, especially if compared with those 

 of his model, Paul Veronese, yet he com- 

 pensated that occasional defect, by great 

 and frequent beauties : for no master has 

 combined such magical effects of light and 

 shadow, with the richness and splendour of 

 regular architecture ; none has shewn such 

 art in disguising that regularity for the sake 

 of picturesque disposition, without injuring 

 the well-connected grandeur of the whole : 

 and this might be exemplified from a num- 

 ber of his works. 



From Rubens also, more than from any 

 other painter, an architectural gardener 

 might take examples of the mixture of re- 

 gular architecture with vegetation : as, for 



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