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Rules and Examples of Perspective proper for Painters and Architects, etc.

Figura Nonagesimaprima.

John James translation

Tholus figuræ nonagesimæ, cum luminibus & umbris.

Illustration from 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

Tholus quem vides in hac paginâ, pollicetur sibi vitam diuturniorem illo, quem super telario plano insignis amplitudinis, depinxi anno 1685. in Templo S. Ignatii Collegii Romani. Proinde si casus aliquis illum absumat, non deerunt qui ex isto eundem in melius reficiant. Mirati fuerunt Architecti nonnulli, quòd columnas anteriores mutulis imposuerim, id enim in solidis ædificiis ipsi non facerent. Verùm eos metu omni liberavit amicissimus mihi Pictor, ac pro me spopondit, damnum omne se statim reparaturum, si fatiscentibus mutulis, columnas in præceps ruere contingat.

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