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John of Padua (recorded active between 1543–1557) was an elusive figure of the English Renaissance who was employed at the courts of Henry VIII and his successor, Edward VI, during a period in which numerous foreign architects and artisans arrived in England, bringing with them the new concepts and evolutions of the Italian Renaissance as it spread across Europe.〔Graham-Vernon〕 He disappears from the records after 1557.〔Summerson 1963:6.〕 John of Padua, John Thorpe and Robert Smythson were near contemporaries all working in the currently evolving English Renaissance style in an age of often poor record keeping. As a result, their works have become blurred and there is debate over whose hand was responsible for which building, and John of Padua has become a mysterious and enigmatic figure in English architectural history. Sir John Summerson warned of this phenomenon, however, that "when it comes to the test of building accounts we find that very little indeed can be ascribed to foreign hands."〔 ==Archival references==
John of Padua was granted the court position of "Deviser of Buildings" in 1543 for his service to Henry VIII in architecture and music and appears as ''architectus'' in the teller's rolls and a contemporary will.〔 The phantom〔A "famous will o' the wisp" Sir John Summerson called him, in ''Architecture in Britain 1530-1830'', 4th ed. 1963:347, crediting Horace Walpole with reviving him.〕 John of Padua first resurfaced in the searches made in the 18th century by the engraver and historian George Vertue in records of the Office of Works, as the poet Thomas Gray reported in a letter to his friend Horace Walpole〔Gray to Walpole, letter of 2 September 1760.〕 Gray prefaced his remarks with the caveat "Mr Vertue's MSS (as I do not doubt you have experienced) will often put you on a false scent." It was Vertue who jumped to the conclusion that John of Padua designed Somerset House and Longleat, Burroughs, the Master of Caius College, had told Gray: "That it was from the similitude of style in those buildings and in the ''four gates'' of Keys College, he had imagined the latter to be also the work of John of Padua, and this was all the proof he had of it. Upon looking at these gates I plainly see that they might very well be the work of one man. From the College books I find that the east side, in which are the Portae Virtutis and Sapientiae, was built in 1566 and 1576." Gray goes on to quote a Latin entry in the books of 1575, ascribing the design of the Gate of Honour (Porta Honoris) to Dr Caius himself instead (''quam Doctor Caius (dum viveret) Architecto praescripserat elaborata''). From this John of Padua appeared in Walpole's ''Anecdotes of Painting'', with the ascription to him of Somerset House and Longleat.
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