ARTIFICE (n.)

ARTIFICE (fra.)
TERM USED AS TRANSLATIONS IN QUOTATION
ARTIFICE (fra.)
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ARTIFICE (fra.) · MOYEN (fra.)
BLANC, Jan, Peindre et penser la peinture au XVIIe siècle : la théorie de l'art de Samuel van Hoogstraten, Berne, Peter Lang, 2008.
COMBRONDE, Caroline, De la lumière en peinture. Le débat latent du Grand Siècle, Louvain-la-Neuve, Éd. de l'Institut supérieur de philosophie, 2010.
HECK, Michèle-Caroline, « ARTIFICE », dans HECK, Michèle-Caroline (éd.), LexArt. Les mots de la peinture (France, Allemagne, Angleterre, Pays-Bas, 1600-1750) [édition anglaise, 2018], Montpellier, Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2018, p. 64-68.
LICHTENSTEIN, Jacqueline, La couleur éloquente  : rhétorique et peinture à l’âge classique, Paris, Flammarion, 1999.
LICHTENSTEIN, Jacqueline, La tâche aveugle. Essai sur les relations de la peinture et de la sculpture à l'âge moderne, Paris, Gallimard, 2003.
PUTTFARKEN, Thomas, Roger de Piles’ Theory of Art, New Haven - London, Yale University Press, 1985.

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And notwithstanding the Defects I have taken the Liberty to remark with the same Indifferency as I have observed the Beauties, that is, without the least regard to the Great Name of the Master, There is a Grace throughout that Charms, and a Greatness that Commands Respect [ndr : dans le portrait de la comtesse Dowager d’Exeter, par Van Dyck]; She appears at first Sight to be a Well-bred Woman of Quality ; ‘tis in her Face, and in her Mien ; and as her Dress, Ornaments, and Furniture contribute something to the Greatness, the Gause Veil coming over her Forehead, and the Hem of it hiding a Defect (which was want of Eye-brows,) is a fine Artifice to give more Grace. This Grace, and Greatness is not that of Raffaelle, or the Antique but ‘tis what is suitable to a Portrait ; and one of Her Age, and Character, and consequently better than if she had appear’d with the Grace of a Venus, or Helena, or the Majesty of a Minerva, or Semiramis.

term translated by ARTIFICE

Conceptual field(s)

L’HISTOIRE ET LA FIGURE → ornement
CONCEPTS ESTHETIQUES → beauté, grâce et perfection

Quotation

There are an Infinity of Artifices to Hide Defects, or Give Advantages, which come under this Head of Invention ; as does all Caprices, Grotesque, and other Ornaments, Masks, &c. together with all Uncommon, and Delicate Thoughts : such as the Cherubims attending on God when he appeared to Moses in the Burning Bush, which Rafaëlle has painted with Flames about them instead of Wings ;

Conceptual field(s)

L’HISTOIRE ET LA FIGURE → sujet et choix
L’HISTOIRE ET LA FIGURE → ornement

Quotation

Sometimes one Mass of Light is upon a dark Ground, and then the Extremities of the Light must not be too near the edges of the Picture, and its greatest Strength must be towards the Centre ; […].
I have a Painting of the Holy Family by
Rubens of this Structure ; where, because the Mass of Light in one part would else have gone off too abruptly, and have made a less pleasing Figure, he has set the Foot of S. Elizabeth on a little Stool ; here the Light catches, and spreads the Mass so as to have the desired effect. Such another Artifice Rafaëlle has used in a Madonna, […] ; He has brought in a kind of an Ornament to a Chair for no other end (that I can imagine) but to form the Mass agreeably.

Conceptual field(s)

EFFET PICTURAL → qualité de la composition