BESCHADUWEN (v.)
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Het voornaemste werck van een goed Schilder bestaet oversulcks daerin, dat hy sijne verwen, nae ’t voorschrift van Lucianus {In zeuxide}, bequaemelick vermenght, dat hyse wel van pas aenstrijcke, en behoorlicker wijse beschaduwe. ’t welck hem t’eenemael onmoghelick is ’t en sy saecke dat hy van te vooren een goed panneel ofte eenen bequaemen doeck hebbe voorbereydet. Plinius gheeft ons te verstaen Lib. XVI nat.hist. cap. 39. Ontrent den eersten aenvangh des selvighen Capitttels, van wat hout d’oude Konstenaers de berders ofte panneelen daer sy op schilderden ghemaeckt hebben. Theophrastus insghelijcks Lib. III. hist. plant. Cap. 10. Als oock Lib. V: Cap. 8. Verhaelt ons in ’t bysonder wat slagh van hout sy tot sulcken ghebruyck eerteeds verkosen. Ghelijck het dan blijckt dat de Konstenaers het bequaemste hout naukeurighlick plaghten uyt te picken, so leeren wy mede uyt Ioannes Grammaticus dat het hun niet even eens was wat doeck sy tot het opmaecken haeres wercks ghebruyckten.
[Suggested translation, Marije Osnabrugge:] The main task of a good Painter then consists therein, that he capably mixes his colours, according to the guideline by Lucianus, that he applies them appropriately and shades them in an acceptable manner. Which is then impossible unless he prepares a good panel or an apt canvas. Plinius explains to us […] of what type of wood the old Artists made the boards or panels on which they painted. Theophrastus also […] tells us in particular which type of wood they previously chose for such a use. Just like it is clear that the Artists tended to carefully pick the most apt wood, as such we learn from Ioannes Grammaticus that it was not all the same to them which canvas they used for the composing of their work.
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Zeuxis, Polygnotas, ende Euphranor hebben met eenen sonderlingen arbeyd ghesocht haere stucken behoorlicker wijse te beschaduwen ende met eenen levendighen gheest in te aessemen; soo plaghten sy mede daer nae te staen datse in haere verdiepsels ende verhooghsels den oppersten lof boven d’andere Meesters moghten verwerven. Philostr. Lib. II. Cap. 9. De vita Apollonij.
[Suggested translation, Marije Osnabrugge:] Zeuxis, Polygnotas and Euphranor have attempted by means of a remarkable labour to shade their pieces in a reasonable manner and to breathe a lively spirit in them; as such they attempted to achieve the highest praise over the other Masters with their depths and highlights. Philostr. (…)