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| POZZO, Andrea
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| Perspective Proper for Artists and Architects, translated into English by John James
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| London: J. Senex and R. Gosling, n.d. (ca 1725).
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| Folio (405 x 258 mm).
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| Contemporary calf.
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By the end of the 17th century the development of geometric perspective, and its applications in drawing, had been advanced to a very high level, as exemplified by the illustrations in Pozzo's treatise on architectural perspective. Pozzo's works, initially published in Italian, were very popular, being reprinted numerous times and translated into several languages, including German and English.
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The figure illustrates one of two famous trompe-l'oeil frescoes painted on the ceilings of the dome and nave in the Church of Sant'Ignazio in Rome. The actual dome of the church was never built, so Pozzo painted the flat ceiling in perspective to give the illusion that one was gazing upward into the interior of an actual dome.
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