Italian villas and their gardens . ,q,V.,_V^ RAILING OF THE VILLA ALARIO22 c: VILLAS OF VENETIA. VIIVILLAS OF VENETIA WRITERS on Italian architecture have hithertopaid httle attention to the villa-architectureof Venetia. It is only within the last fewyears that English and American critics have deignedto recognize any architectural school in Italy later thanthat of Vignola and Palladio, and even these two greatmasters of the sixteenth century have been held up asexamples of degeneracy to a generation bred in theRuskinian code of art ethics. In France, though theinfluence of Viollet-le-Duc was
Italian villas and their gardens . ,q,V.,_V^ RAILING OF THE VILLA ALARIO22 c: VILLAS OF VENETIA. VIIVILLAS OF VENETIA WRITERS on Italian architecture have hithertopaid httle attention to the villa-architectureof Venetia. It is only within the last fewyears that English and American critics have deignedto recognize any architectural school in Italy later thanthat of Vignola and Palladio, and even these two greatmasters of the sixteenth century have been held up asexamples of degeneracy to a generation bred in theRuskinian code of art ethics. In France, though theinfluence of Viollet-le-Duc was nearly as hostile asRuskins to any true understanding of Italian art, theLatin instinct for form has asserted itself in a revivedstudy of the classic tradition; but French writers onarchitecture have hitherto confined themselves chiefly tothe investigation of their national styles. It is only in Germany that Italian architecture fromPalladio to Juvara has received careful and sympatheticstudy. Burckhardt pointed the way in his Ciceroneand in The Architecture of the Renaissance in Italy ;Herr
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