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 778 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. city buildings. Paul Veronese was an Arcliitcct of great merit; and even Pietro da Cortona practised extensively in this branc> of the fine arts." (Lund. Arch. Itiily, &c. ) 1661. As Examples of the Specimens of Italian Landscape- Architecture, and Meason's remarks on them, we give the following : — Fig. 1417 is from Raphael. " This fine edifice deserves the attention of an Architect. The outline against the sky is very picturesque, and the introduction o* the colunm 1417 gives an agreeable pyramidal figure. The whole is so well connected, that it has the appearance of having been built at the same period. Drawn on a large scale, the build- ing would have a much greater air of simplicity and grandeur." Fig. 1418 is from Titian. " We have in this chaste design a very beautiful building, varied, yet extremely simple, and having all the parts well combined ; which is owing 1418 much to the elevation of the central square mass, producing not only a fine general figure, but uniting the whole into a connected body. The large round tower, as a termination, adds the character of firmness to the whole edifice." Fig. 1 41 9 is from Claude Lorraine. " To the original part of the building, placed behind,