Rules and Examples of Perspective proper for Painters and Architects, etc. In English and Latin: Containing a most easie and expeditious method to delineate in perspective all designs relating to architecture

In the Execution of this Work, you are to begin with the Geometrical Plan; in which the two Ranges of Circles denote the Columns, the other Lines shew the Pedestals, with the Pr...

_Postquam descripseris in papyro separata quadratum geometricum A, facies duas lineas parallelas inter se distantes altitudine, quam dederis puncto oculi; linea inferior erit li...

The first Line therefore HI is call’d the Ground-line, or Line of the Plan, at which the Edifice begins, and on which it stands. The second Line NON, parallel to the former, is...

The Appearance of round things, if well design’d, masterly painted, and the Frame cut away to the Out-line of the Work, do wonderfully deceive the Eye. This Figure is drawn from...

As in the foregoing Figure, so in this also is shewn what is to be done, where the Plans AA lie so oblique, as to cause Confusion; especially in the Parallel-lines which give th...

Being to form the Plan E from the Plan B, you must, with occult Lines, make the Squares necessary for bringing four, or at least three of the Circles into Perspective; transferr...

Besides _Vignola_, _Palladio_ and _Scamozzi_ have also written excellently well of the Orders of Architecture; and each of ’em have deservedly their Followers and Admirers. That...

_The Condescension of the late Emperor of ~Germany~ to patronize this ~WORK~ in the ~Original~, could not have incited me to the Presumption of laying the ~Translation~ at Your...

_Postquam in pavimento exactissimè disposueris tum poscenium, tum ex ordine scenas reliquas, unam alteri incumbentem, ut figurâ septuagesimaquintâ declaravimus, fiet linea horiz...

The Upright of the Length of the Cornice and Pedament, is made by producing Parallels to the Ground-line AS; till they intersect the Visual AC; and thence continuing Lines paral...

_Respondeo, objectionem hanc dupliciter intelligi posse: vel enim intelligi posset, non esse assignandum unicum punctum toti illi spatio; atque in hoc sensu vera est; cum enim s...

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