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A59260	A book of perspective & geometry, being the ABC, and first degree of all good art The learning of which comprehendeth in it many notable arts, needfull and necessary for every artificer and workman. For as no perspective workman can make any work without architecture, so neither can the architecture without perspective. Which perspective is inspection or looking into by shortning of the sight, making it to shew further then in effect it is. ... And seing [sic] perspective art is nothing without geometry, they are both bound together, that the workman may be able to aide and help himselfe therewith. And forasmuch as the hand cannot effect the understanding of the mind, I shall not please thereby such as are curious, yet at least I shall help yong beginners that know little or nothing thereof. This second book of architecture made by Sebastian Serly, entreating of perspective, touching the superficies, translated out of Itallian into Dutch, and out of Dutch into English, ...; Tutte l'opere d'architettura. Book 2. English	Serlio, Sebastiano, 1475-1554.	1657 (1657)	Wing S2623; ESTC R223996	29,522	24

comber you with the shadowing of them for I will speak of them hereafter particularly 38 I spake before of Cornices without members which might serve this hollow Quadran and how you shall make the terminations thereof Now in this Figure I shew you the said Cornices with their members which you may also make in other manner as it pleaseth the workman that is to make them bigger or lesser as I have spoken of other Cornices alwayes using good discretion and judgement to chuse and make such members therein as may shew well in mens sight There are some Cornices which reach so far over that men cannot see the members thereof under them therefore in that case the members are so to be made that they may be seemly and pleasant in mens sight 40 This body hereafter following is raised out of the former Figure before set down and is made with the same Horison which body containeth two quadrants in length and one quadrant in height for the line CD is set in Perpendicular manner upon the nethermost corner whereon the other Superficies are set thus then this body is of two four-squares I mean two four-squares in length and one four-square broad and high And this body as I said before shall serve for many things But if you will have more cubits in the length then lengthen the Base in so many parts more and you shall alwayes finde the truth hereof And if you will make a border or Creast about this body then you must follow this Rule aforesaid 41 But will you make divers things upon on ground then it is convenient that first you make a pavement as you see it here set down and thereupon frame what you think good upon the quadrans and the lesse the Quadrans are and the more in number you may the easier frame things upon them The crosse made upon this ground is onely to shew you the way and entry thereunto but for such a forme you may make a forme of a Christian Church as they are now built The other forme by it sheweth a piece of a foundation of a House but all these things you may make in a greater forme and set them forth as you will sometimes placing the Horisetall lines in such manner that you may see more of the out sides but yet the Horisons must stand all of one height 42 Out of this Superficiall Figure aforesaid I have raised these bodies to shew how the Horisons of them doe stand in the work as well above as below as you shall find by experience and in truth these works which you see over the poynts or corners containe a Book alone by themselves but as I said before my meaning was to shew but three or foure Figures of them yet I will shew ten of them intending to leave the Student some works whereof I am well assured For that he hath more eyes and more patience then my selfe he shall find many things which I write not of nor yet set down 43 Upon this Pavement as I said you may forme or frame what you will but in this Pavement here ensuing you see a column lying being eight square which is three Quadrants in thicknesse and fourteen in length This eight square column may be made out of a column of foure-square as before in another place is shewed which foure-square you may see drawn in the Figure with pricks and the terminations of the eight-square with black lines But because that this eight-square column is too much seen on the sides the readier to make it out of the foure-square I have therefore have made an other piece by it the which because it draweth nearer to this Horison is seen more before then the other although not so long for it is but halfe so long as the other as you may see and tell it in the ground or foot thereof And if it were so that this eight square Figure reached nearer to the Horison it would then be better seen yet it would not wholly be seen before because it standeth without the four-square and corner 44 These Columns are the same which are before set down but the other were hollow and these massie whereby an expert workman may find out many things exercising this way although there are other means to be used as Albert Durer hath shewed to look through holes with a thread There is also another way which is drawn out of flat formes which is the surest way but very troublesome and hard to describe in writing wherefore I have chosen this as the easiest way to be shewed And if I had not undertaken to shew other things of more importance I would have drawn divers bodies and houses after this manner But for that I mean to entreat of Scenes and the preparing of places for to shew Comedies and Tragedies which is now used in this age and especially in Italy therefore I will make an end of these foure-cornerd things leaving it to another as I said before to set forth more thereof A Treatise of scenes or places to Play in 46 Among all the things that may be made by mens hands thereby to yield admiration pleasure to sight and to content the fantasies of men I think it is placing of a Scene as it is shewed to your sight where a man in a small place may see built by Carpenters or Masons skilfull in Perspective work great Palaces large Temples and divers Houses both near and far off broad places filled with Houses long streets crost with other ways triumphant Arches high Pillars or Columns Piramides Obeliscens and a thousand faire things and Buildings adorned with innumerable lights great middle sort and small as you may see it placed in the Figure which are so cunningly set out that they shew forth and represent a number of the brightest stones as Diamonds Rubies Saphirs Smaragdes Jacinths and such like There you may see the bright shining Moon ascending onely with her hornes and already risen up before the Spectators are aware of or once saw it ascend In some other Scenes you may see the rising of the Sun with his course about the world and at the ending of the Comedy you may see it goe down most artificially whereat many beholders have been abasht And when occasion serveth you shall by Art fee a God descending down from Heaven you also see some Comets and Stars shoot in the skies then you see divers personages come upon the Stage richly adorned with divers strange formes and manners of Apparell both to dance Moriscoes and play Musick Sometimes you see strange Beasts wherein are men and children leaping running and Tumbling as those kind of Beasts use to doe not without admiration of the beholders which things as occasion serveth are so pleasant to mens eyes that a man could not see fairer made with mens hands But for that we are entred into another manner of Perspective work therefore I will speak more at large thereof This Perspective work whereof I

the Horison neverthelesse that you may the better be instructed touching the former of these Houses I have here set down a Figure for satisfaction of those that take pleasure therein but because this Figure is so small therein I could not observe all the measures but refer them to invention that thereby you may chuse or make houses which shew well as an open Gallery or lodge through the which you may see another house The hangings over or shooting out shew well in shortning work and some Cornices cut out at the ends accompanied with some others that are painted shew well in work so doe the houses which have great bearing out like lodgings or Chambers for men and especially above all things you must set the smallest houses before that you may see other houses over or above them as you see it here above the bawdy house for if you place the greatest before and the rest behind still lessen then the place of the Scene would not be so well filled and although these things upon the one side be made all upon one floor neverthelesse for that you place great part of the lights in the middle hanging over the Scene or Scaffold therefore it would frand better if the floor in the midst were taken away and all the roundells and quadrans which you see in the Buildings they are artificiall lights cutting through of divers colours which to make I will shew the manner in the last of this Book The windows which stand before were good to be made of Glasse or Paper with light behind them But if I should here write all that I know to serve for this work it would be overlong to reherse therefore I refer that to the wit and discretion of those that exercise and practise themselves herein 48 Houses for Tragedies must be made for great personages for that actions of love strange adventures and cruell murthers as you read in ancient and modern Tragedies happen alwayes in the houses of great Lords Dukes Princes and Kings Therefore in such cases you must make none but stately houses as you see it here in this Figure wherein for that it is so small I could make no Princely Pallaces but it is sufficient for the workman to see the manner thereof whereby he may help himself as time and place serveth and as I said in the Comical he must always study to please the eyes of the beholders and forget not himselfe so much as to set a small building in stead of a great for the reasons aforesaid And for that I have made all my Scenes of laths covered over with linnen yet sometime it is necessary to make some things rising or bossing out which are to be made of wood like the houses on the left side whereof the Pillars although they shorten stand all upon one Base with some stayres all covered over with cloth the Cornices bearing out which you must observe to the middle part But to give place to the Galleries you must set the other shortning Cloth somewhat backwards and make a Cornice above it as you see and that which I speak of these Buildings you must understand of all the the rest but in the Buildings which stand far backward the Painting work must supply the place by shadows without any bearing out touching the artificiall lights I have spoken thereof in the Comicall works All that you make above the Roofe sticking out as Chimneys Towers Piramides Oblisces and other such like things or Images you must make them all of th●n boards cut out round and well coloured But if you make any flat Buildings they must stand somewhat far inward that you may not see them on the sides In these Scenes although some have painted personages therein like supporters as in a Gallery or do r as a Dog Cat or any other Beasts I am not of that opinion for that standeth too long without stirring or moving but if you make such a thing to lie sleeping that I hold withall You may also make Images Histories or Fables of Marble or other matter against a wall but to represent the life they ought to stir In the latter end of this Book I will shew you how to make them 49 The Satiricall Scenes are to represent Satirs wherein you must place all those things that be rude and rusticall as in ancient Satirs they were made plaine without any respect whereby men might understand that such things were referred to Rusticall people which set all things out rudely and plainly for which cause Vitruvius speaking of Scenes saith they should be made with Trees Roots Herbs Hills and Flowres and with some country houses as you see them here set down And for that in our dayes these things were made in Winter when there were but few green Trees Herbs and Flowres to be found then you must make these things of Silk which will be more commendable then the naturall things themselves and as in other Scenes for Comedies or Tragidies the houses or other artificiall things are Painted so you must make Trees Hearbs and other things in these and the more such things cost the more they are esteemed for they are things which stately and great Persons doe which are enemies to nigardlinesse This have I seen in some Scenes made by Jeronimo Genga for the pleasure and delight of his Lord and Patron Erancisco Maria Duke of Vrbin wherein I saw so great liberality used by the Prince and so good a conceit in the workman and so good Art and proportion in things therein presented as ever I saw in all my life before On good Lord what magnificence was there to be seen for the great number of Trees and Fruits with sundry Hearbs and Flowres all made of fine Silk of divers colours The water-courses being adorned with Frogs Snayles Tortuses Toads Adders Snakes and other beasts Roots of Corrale mother of Pearle and other shells laid and thrust through between the stones with so many severall and faire things that if I should declare them all I should not have time enough I speak not of Satirs Nimphs Mer-maids divers Monsters and other strange beasts made so cunningly that they seemed in shew as if they went and stirred according to their manner And if I were not desirous to be briefe I would speak of the costly apparell of some Shepheards made of cloth of Gold and of Silk cunningly mingled with Imbrothery I would also speak of some Fishermen which were no lesse richly apparalled then the others having Nets and Angling-rods all guilt I should speak of some Country maids and Nimphs carelesly apparelled without pride but I leave all these things to the discretion and consideration of the judicious workman which shall make all such things as their Pattrons serve them which they must work after their own devices and never take care what it shall cost Of the Artificiall Lights of the Scenes I Promised in the Treatise of Scenes to set down the manner how to