The Ninety-first Figure.
John James translation
The Cupola of the Ninetieth Figure, with its Lights and Shades.
The Cupola in this Plate will in all Likelihood be of longer Duration, than that which I painted on a very large Table, for the flat Ceiling of the Church of S. Ignatius of the Roman College, anno 1685. For if that suffer by any Accident, with the help of this its place may be supply’d by a better. Some Architects dislik’d my setting the advanc’d Columns upon Corbels, as being a thing not practis’d in solid Structures; but a certain Painter, a Friend of mine, remov’d all their Scruples, by answering for me, That if at any time the Corbels should be so much surcharg’d with the Weight of the Columns, as to endanger their Fall, he was ready to repair the Damage at his own Cost.
Fig. xcii.