[ARCHITECTURE] POZZO Andrea - Perspective Pictorum atque Architectorum [translated Perspective of painters and architects]. Augsburg 1719

POZZO Andrea - Perspective Pictorum atque Architectorum, I. Pars, Qua facillima ac expeditissima Methodus omne id quod ad Architecturam attinet, optica ratione delineandi exhibetur. II Pars, Qua porro expeditissima Methodus omnia. [transl. The Perspective of Painters and Architects, Part I. The easiest and most appropriate way to depict everything that concerns architecture is the optical method of drawing. Part 2. It is the most appropriate method of all]. Augsburg 1719.
Augustæ Vindelicorum : Impensis Jeremiæ Wolffii, Techniopolæ, Anno 1719 (Augustæ Vindelicorum : Gedruckt bey Peter Detleffen).

S. [58] p., 100, [4] p. tab. ill. copperplate. Height: 33.5 cm.

Condition: +degradable. The spine is missing. Missing title page and copperplate with portrait of the author. 2 copperplates scratched with crayons, while a few with notes in pencil. Some pages loose. Some stains, folds of pages. Traces of flooding on upper margins of pages. On part of the pages (from figure LXXIV) small traces of woodworm on the margins, at the connection with the block.

A superb work by the eminent Italian painter and architect, Jesuit Andrea Pozzo (1642-1709). The author became famous primarily as a representative of the illusionist trend in Baroque painting, which relies on inducing the illusion of three-dimensionality in the viewer of the work. One of the finest examples of this painting are the frescoes on the vault of the Church of St. Ignatius in Rome, by Pozzo himself.

The offered work includes, among other things. architectural dissections of various parts of the Church of St. Ignatius in Rome, which Pozzo decorated with his famous frescoes between 1685 and 1697. The Jesuit frescoed the nave vault and designed the transept altars; his work also includes frescoes on the transept vault and in the apse. On the church's vault is the famous 1685 quatrefoil by Jesuit Andrea del Pozzo The Apotheosis of St. Ignatius, which depicts the heavens opening before the founding father. Researchers consider this work to be the artist's "magnum opus." [via wikipedia.co.uk]