CHARM (n.)

BEKOORING (nld.) · BEKOORLIJKHEID (nld.) · BELIEBUNG (deu.) · BEVALLIGHEID (nld.) · CHARME (fra.) · ENTZÜCKUNG (deu.) · GEFÄLLIGKEIT (deu.)
TERM USED AS TRANSLATIONS IN QUOTATION
ATTRAIT (fra.) · CHARME (fra.)
LONTRADE, Agnès, Le plaisir esthétique : naissance d’une notion, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2004.
RIADO, Benjamin, Le "Je-ne-sais-quoi". Aux sources d'une théorie esthétique au XVIIe siècle, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2012.

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But here by the way, let no man think we mean by this Coloree (as they term it) in Drawing and Graving, such a position of the Hatches as the Chevalier Wolson has invented, and Pietro Santo the Jesuite {Theatre d’honeur. Tessera Gentil.} has follow’d, to distinguish their Blazons by : But a certain admirable effect, emerging from the former union of Lights, and shadowes ; such as the Antient would expresse by Tonus, or the Pythagoreans in their Proportions, and imitated in this Art, where the shades of the Hatches intend, and remit to the best resemblance of painting, the Commissures of the light and dark parts, imperceptably united, or at least so sweetly conducted, as tat the alteration could no more certainly be defin’d, then the Semitons, or Harmoge in musick ; which though indeed differing ; yet it is so gentle, and so agreeable, as even ravishes our senses, by a secret kind of charme not to be expressed in words, or discerned by the ignorant. 

Conceptual field(s)

PEINTURE, TABLEAU, IMAGE → définition de la gravure
MATERIALITE DE L’ŒUVRE → technique de la gravure
SPECTATEUR → perception et regard