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THE GARDENS OF ITALY. 
366. — VILLA DI MASER : THE MAIN APPROACH. 
were early patrons of Palladio. It has even been thought that it was through them 
that the young Palladio was able to study at Rome, and thus to amass his great collection of 
measured studies of the Roman remains. Probably, with Paul Veronese as painter, Vittoria 
as sculptor and Palladio as architect, the two Barbaro patrons had as perfect and harmonious a 
company as ever engaged in house building. In such good company Palladio may have felt 
that there was compensation for a relaxed view of architecture. Suppose, however, that 
Pirro Ligorio, northward bound on some journey, had looked in as a caller, Palladio, who must 
367. — MASER, NE.AR TREVISO. PLAN OF VILLA FOR D. .AND M. BARBARO. 
From O. B. Scamo::zi. 
have seen the Casino del 
Papa while at Rome, 
would, indeed, have been 
hard put to it in 
apologising for his stuc- 
catore. Of this group of 
bright spirits Daniele 
seems to have died first, 
whereupon Marcantonio 
engaged Palladio to build 
the church, a very gay 
Pantheon in miniature, 
which stands on the high 
road at the gate of the 
villa. On the frieze of 
the order of its portico 
is an inscription in 
large Roman letters. 
Local tradition says that 
Palladio died at the villa, 
and left all his drawings 
to the owners, and that it 
was from their successors 
that Lord Burlington, 
travelling in Italy in the 
early years of 1700, 
