Modern Perspective

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. A separate chapter discusses certain methods em ployed for limiting the space required for making draw ings in perspective, especially that of the late M. Adhe mar, methods of the greatest value when, as in fresco painting or scene-painting, the picture is large compared with the size of the room in which it is to be made. I have taken the liberty of considerably modifying the details of M. Adhemar's processes, and in an impor tant particular have suggested an alternative procedure, which, if not intrinsically preferable to his own, is at least more in accord with the point of view taken in this work.