IXTROnrCTORY. 
l6. — THE GARDEN FRONT AND BELVEDERE. 
rhe orisinol ascent Ldureii the dnss h;n: been taken atc’iiy. 
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 173S. 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. 
file sunblind casing is a later addition. 
