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Paradossi per pratticare la prospettiva senza saperla, fiori, per facilitare l'intelligenza, frutti, per non operare alla cieca. Cognitioni necessarie à pittori, scultori, architetti, ed à qualunque si diletta di disegno

Troili, Giulio, 1613-1685 · 1683 · Bologna, Per G. Longhi · 59 pictures

Paradossi per pratticare la prospettiva senza saperla is a 1683 Bologna treatise on perspective by Giulio Troili, written for painters, sculptors, architects and draughtsmen. Its pages show geometric construction diagrams: converging sightlines to a vanishing point, a stage-like arched interior, and a framed plan with a receding corridor. A designer could take from them the clear logic of one-point perspective and the way orthogonal lines are built up into a receding space.

Perspective · Perspective -- Early works to 1800 · Geometry -- Early works to 1800 · Fortification -- Early works to 1800 · Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery · Fortification · Geometry

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