ITALIAN GARDENS OF THE RENAISSANCE 
over a hundred, and his portrait, painted by El Greco in 
extreme old age, may be seen in the National Gallery, 
where it still goes by the name of a “ St. James.” He 
wrote his famous book at the age of eighty-three, and 
describes in its pages how, owing to careful and temperate 
habits, he has kept his full powers of body and mind, and 
can mount a horse without help, and enjoy walking and 
travelling, and take part in the pleasures of the chase, as 
if he were still in the prime of life. A wealthy and liberal 
patron of art, Cornaro had a fine house in Padua, close to 
the church of II Santo, which he built in 1524, from the 
designs of the Veronese architect Falconetto. The 
painters Domenico Campagnolo and Girolamo del Santo, 
who worked with Titian in the Scuola del Santo close 
by, were employed to decorate the interior, and, accord¬ 
ing to Michieli, the painted ceilings were executed by 
Domenico Veneziano from the cartoons of Raphael. 
Unfortunately this once splendid Palazzo has now been 
entirely rebuilt, and all that remains of Messer Alvise 
and Falconetto’s creation is the elegant garden-house, 
with its open loggia and charming decorations in white 
stucco and fresco, in the style of the Vatican Loggie. 
Besides his town house, Cornaro built two fine villas, 
the one at Este in the Euganean hills, the other at 
Codevigo in the plains near the mouth of the Brenta. 
Their venerable owner attributed the robust health 
which he enjoyed in his old age in great part to his love 
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