A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . erruption 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


A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . erruption 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 plainenefle fake. W hereof oneis to be feene in MtlUne at Saint Maries de Carminejn a Chappel of i he lifeofCVary JMagdaleneffiZenales doing. The vaulte whereof is made arterthis maner ,hauingdiuerfeSaintes fitting vpon the Cornifhes, done by thehande oi^uflen ofJWilanc. Another is in Parma, of Antonio Coreggioeihandling,of the Afccnfion of our J-ady, with terrible figures rounde about,which are fhortned in this fore. OF OF PERSPECTIVE. lop. OF THE THIRD DECEIT, FVLL SIGHT ABOVE. CHAT. XV.


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