The Sixty-sixth FIGURE.

A Circular Design in Perspective.

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 the Plan, as usual; and was put in execution by me, in the Church of S. Ignatius of the Roman College, for the Thursday and Friday of the Holy Week. Within the Arch, on the Altar, was plac’d a sepulchral Urn containing the Holy Sacrament. Beneath the Altar was laid a Figure of our Saviour Christ taken down from the Cross. In the midst of the Tambour, was a Picture of the Blessed Virgin in extreme Sorrow; and on the Ballustrade, Angels mourning, bearing the Instruments of the Passion.

Fig. lxvii.