Michael’s Sketch of Villa Capra (Villa Rotunda.) Vicenza, Italy. John Ruskin had once said, “To draw the Leaf, is to know the Forest.”...

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Michael’s Sketch of Villa Capra (Villa Rotunda) John Ruskin had once said, “To draw the Leaf, is to know the Forest.” For generations...