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

by Andrea Pozzo

The Attick Base in Perspective.

The Attick Base is more frequently made use of by Painters, than any other; because it suits well with most of the Orders. The Points E and F, the greatest Breadth of the outward Circle of the Perspective-Plan, give the greatest Breadth of the lower Torus CD. And whatever else relates either to this or the upper Torus AB, is to be sought in the same Manner, as has been shewn in the Tuscan Base.

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FIG. XXI.

Figura Vigesimaprima.

Optica imminutio capitelli Etrusci.

Eâdem cum reliquis formâ, eâdemque methodo capitella delineanda sunt: quum habeant ipsa quoque suum cimatium quadratum, & sint rotunda. Linea plani solet in iis fieri altior lineâ horizontali: quia quum capitella imponenda sint columnis homine altioribus, plerumque apparent sublimiora nostris oculis.