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 Artifice us’d in projecting the Perspective of this Plan, has been already shewn in the Forty-second Figure; namely, that for giving the greater Distance between the Parallels, the Ground-line is drawn much lower than its true Place; as is manifest on Inspection of the Figure.

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Fig. lxx.

FIGURA SEPTUAGESIMA.

Deformatio elevationis figuræ sexagesimæoctavæ, & præparatio quarta ad figuram septuagesimamprimam.

Quæ dicta sunt de projectione vestigii nostri ædificii, habent locum in elevatione. Nimirum, ut parallelæ invicem notabiliter distarent, usi sumus industriâ quam declaravimus figurâ quadragesimasecundâ.

The Seventieth FIGURE.

The Perspective of the Elevation of the Sixty-eighth Figure, and the fourth Preparation to the Seventy-first Figure.