Bruce Boucher, Director, UVA Art Museum Thomas Jefferson called the architectural treatise by Andrea Palladio his “Bible” and encouraged others to use it as he did. However, Jefferson’s knowledge of Palladio and of classical architecture was largely at second hand and through printed sources, which were in turn interpretations of Palladio’s work. This led to creative misinterpretations that had an impact on Jefferson’s masterpiece, the Lawn of the University of Virginia.