CHISWICK HOUSE holds a significant place in British architectural history as the former home of Richard Boyle, the 3rd Earl of Burlington, 18th-century Palladianism’s chief advocate. The building, completed in 1729 in the style of a country villa on the Italian Veneto, influenced the style of architecture in this country for decades. The gardens, laid out at about the same time by Burlington, with the aid of Charles Bridgeman and William Kent, are similarly central to the development of English landscape gardening.
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