La perspectiue pratique : necessaire a tous peintres, graueurs, sculpteurs, architectes, orfeures, brodeurs, tapissiers, et autres qui se meslent de desseigner
A 1647 Paris treatise on perspective by Jean Dubreuil, issued for painters, engravers, sculptors, architects, goldsmiths and embroiderers. Its pages are engraved plates of geometric construction diagrams, with ground plans, vanishing-point lines and labelled letters, showing how to draw rooms, arches, vaults and tiled floors in correct recession. A designer could borrow the clean orthogonal layouts, the lettered measuring grids and the precise foreshortening of arches and interiors as structural scaffolding for spatial compositions.
