A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . ed, when the whole church was whited at theinftanceof a certaine groffe-headed Church-xvarden,who had no more iudgerr ent inpainting,then a goofe. A thing much to be lamented5that fb worthy a me-morial! of art fbould bee fb much defaced 3 that there was not Jef t the leafttrace or figne of * The fametjndt ofdtline-*tlon,hnh itdefcriied in ihtII. chap, andthe 16. in placeand jimathn:Durerus tal-leih thu kjndtofworkc \m-prcffioinfundamciuum, J- Of toS THE FIFTH 55lJt» eJ*^*) EWS S)uG ?J
A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . ed, when the whole church was whited at theinftanceof a certaine groffe-headed Church-xvarden,who had no more iudgerr ent inpainting,then a goofe. A thing much to be lamented5that fb worthy a me-morial! of art fbould bee fb much defaced 3 that there was not Jef t the leafttrace or figne of * The fametjndt ofdtline-*tlon,hnh itdefcriied in ihtII. chap, andthe 16. in placeand jimathn:Durerus tal-leih thu kjndtofworkc \m-prcffioinfundamciuum, J- Of toS THE FIFTH 55lJt» eJ*^*) EWS S)uG ?J1 uti (iif i/Jjifi CV«£3 »ir>f5 SY/^fS SV ^^??v iv~^r^*>^r v*%r ^^v ^^?v v*^r ^s-vT^Sr \^^v^°y ^^?y^!?sr iCiS^r 5dsc ^sr x^sy x^^r x^syX5!sr >is tTtta eJK-Ts (sT*-*^*) el* •Is e>Jy> eJtJt5 iinis ^?ts «i,fcs «iA ^°!^.^1!^^£2r1 ^a^v^esX J^«<vV JKXV J^aaA. OF THE SECOND AND OBLIQ^VE DECEIT-FVL SIGHT. CHJT. XI1It. His fight or maner of lines, caufethvs to fee the Ob-lique fhortnings in their places: viz. fuch as may beemade in the vaults of Chappels not in the fquares3butin the femicircles and fuch like places,as the tiburij& Whence from the declining of the vault the fi-gures and other bodies may be feene ftanding as per-fectly vpon their feete, as if there were no vault at thatin making the vaulte appeare, it caufeth nointerruption therof,ifwe exprcfle the Chappel ,n fuch fbrt,that it feeme tobe trucly open to heauen,or with other pretty inv entions as the vfe is. Thisisoneof thehardcftwaiesoffhortning,becauiewe muft not onely workeby lines and besnrsjbut alio be fure not to erre a iot, as 1 Tialbe fliev ved inthea next booke:fo that the things which are made aboue may not ftandeone handes breadth lower. But becaufe this point (infomuch as it is veryhard to be conceiucd) would aske a larger difcourfe, it fhall fuffice onelie toalleadge a few examples hereof,for more plaine
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