Perspective, id est, Celeberrima ars inspicientis aut transpicientis oculorum aciei : in pariete, tabula aut tela depicta, in qua demonstrantur quaedam tam antiqua, quam nova aedificia, templorum, sive aedium, aularum, cubicularum, ambulaciorum, platearum, xystorum, hortorum, fororum, viarum et hujusmodi alia, quae nituntur suis fondamentalibus lineis, quorum fondamentum descriptionibus clare exsplicatur, perutilis ac necessaria, omnibus pictoribus, sculptoribus, statuariis, fabriferrariis, architectis, inventoribus, cæmentariis, scrinariis, fabrilignariis, & omnibus artium amatoribus, qui huic arti operam dare volent, majori cum voluptate, & minori cum labore
A 1604 perspective treatise by Hans Vredeman de Vries, published in Leiden by Hendrik Hondius, aimed at painters, sculptors, architects and craftsmen learning to draw buildings in linear perspective. Its plates show colonnades, arcades, a rotunda and a sunken pool with steps, built up from orthogonal grid lines converging to a single vanishing point; a designer could borrow these receding floor grids and layered arches as a clear, geometric spatial framework.
