Rules and Examples of Perspective proper for Painters and Architects, etc

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

Notwithstanding the Art of PERSPECTIVE must be acknowledgd so highly and indispensably requisite in the Practice of Painting, Architecture, and Sculpture; that in the First of these especially, nothing commendable can be performd without its Assistance: Yet such have been the Difficulties and Obscurities met with in the first Attempts, and so great the Perplexity and Confusion of Lines in the Practice thereof; that the best Instructions, hitherto made English, have invited very few to such a Prosecution of this Study, as might render their Performances of this kind, truly valuable. Tis something unaccountable, that, among so many learned Persons as have handled this Subject, Priests, Architects, and Painters; very few, if any of them, have given Directions proper for shunning that Disorder and Confusion of Lines, which, in most Instances, must necessarily attend the Execution of their Rules: In all or most of which, the whole Space for the Performance is confind between the Lines of the Plan and Horizon; which, where the Scale is small, and the Height of the Eye not very much advancd, renders the Work exceedingly confusd; and where those Lines are coincident, (which frequently happens) the Method becomes utterly impracticable. This Authors great Experience in the Practice of Perspective, having furnishd him with excellent RULES for Shortning the Work, and Obviating the forementiond Difficulties; he has here very generously imparted them, and especially the latter, in the Tenth and Eleventh Figures. And tho on Perusal of the first three or four Plates, this Method may possibly seem the same that some others have before made use of; yet whoever shall diligently observe and copy the Rules and Examples of the succeeding Figures, must necessarily acknowledge the great Advantage this has in a Perspective-Plan and Upright, clear and distinct; whence the finishd Piece is deducd, without the least Incumbrance of the Work. The Explanations of the Rules here given, are short and instructive; and the Architectonical Designs producd to exemplify them, Noble and Magnificent. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 56312
Author: Pozzo, Andrea
Release Date: Jan 5, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: Latin

Contributors

Translator: James, John, -1746