FIGURA Sexagesimasexta.
Projectio ædificii rotundi.
Mirifice oculis imponunt imagines rerum rotundarum, si omnibus resectis quæ ad eas non pertinent, exactè delineatæ ac depictæ fuerint. Hanc figuram ex vestigio eruere oportebit methodo consuetâ, eamque in Templo S. Ignatii Collegii Romani construxi pro feriâ V & VI Hebdomadæ sanctioris. Intra arcum, super altari, locus erat urnæ sepulcrali, cum Venerabili Sacramento. Sub altari visebatur simulacrum Christi Domini è Cruce depositi: in medio columnarum, imago Beatæ Virginis dolentis; super balaustiis Angeli lugentes, cum instrumentis cruciatuum Salvatoris.
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.
