COUNTENANCE

COUNTENANCE (n.)

AIR · AIR OF HEAD · CHARACTER · COMPLEXION · EMOTION · FACE · HEAD · MOTION · MOTION OF SPIRIT · MOTION OF THE SOUL · PASSION · PERTURBATION · PHYSIOGNOMY

AIR (fra.) · ARIA (ita.)

BLANC, Jan, « AIR / AIR DE TÊTE », 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. 37-40.

DUPRÉ, Sven, « Images in the air: optical games, magic and imagination », dans GOTTLER Christine (éd.), Spirits Unseen: The Representation of Subtle Bodies in Early Modern European Culture, Leiden, Brill, 2008, p. 71-92.

KREMER, Nathalie, « L’air des figures de Watteau », dans MÉROT, Alain, RAUSEO, Chris et TOUTAIN-QUITTELIER, Valentine (éd.), Watteau au confluent des arts : esthétiques de la grâce, Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2014, p. 257-265.

SIMMONET, Cyrille, Brève histoire de l’air, Versailles, Éd. Quae, 2014.

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PEACHAM, Henry, The Gentlemans Exercise. Or, An exquisite practise, as well for drawing all manner of Beasts in their true Portraitures : as also the making of all kinds of colours, to be used in Limning, Painting, Tricking, and Blazon of Coates, and Armes, with divers other most delightfull and pleasurable observations, for all young Gentlemen and others. As also Serving for the necessary use and generall benefit of divers Trades-men and Artificers, as namely Painters, Ioners, Free-Masons, Cutters and Carvers, &c. for the farther gracing, beautifying, and garnishing of all their absolute and worthy pieces, either for Borders, Architects, or Columnes, &c., London, J. Legat, 1634.

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The First Booke of Drawing and Limning, Chap. VII, Of Drawing the Face or countenance of a Man, p. 21-25

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Of Drawing the Face or countenance of a Man.
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The visage or countenance is (for the most part) drawn but three manner of wayes, the first is full faced, […] {The full face.}
The second is three quarter faced, as our Flanders and ordinary pictures are, that is when one part of the face is hid by a quarter as thus : [ndr : insertion d’un dessin explicatif].
{Halfe face.} The third is onely halfe faced, […] as this Cæsars head [ndr : présence d’un dessin accôlé au texte illustrant le propos de Peacham].

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L’HISTOIRE ET LA FIGURE → figure et corps

L’ARTISTE → apprentissage

ANONYME, The Excellency of the Pen and Pencil, Exemplifying The Uses of them in the most Exquisite and Mysterious Arts of Drawing, Etching, Engraving, Limning, Painting in Oyl, Washing of Maps & Pictures. Also the way to Cleanse any Old Painting, and Preserve the Colours. Collected from the Writings of the ablest Masters both Ancient and Modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others. Furnished with divers Cuts in Copper, being Copied from the best Masters, and here inserted for Examples for the Learner to Practice by. A Work very useful for all Gentlemen, and other Ingenious Spirits, either Artificers or others, London, Dorman Newman, 1688.

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Of Drawing. The First Book, Chap. V, Directions for Drawing the Body of Man or Woman, p. 22

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A smiling countenance is discerned by the Mouth, when the corners of the Mouth turn up a little.
A frowning countenance is discerned in the Fore-head, Eye-brows, bending and somewhat wrinkling about the top of the Nose, &c.

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L’HISTOIRE ET LA FIGURE → expression des passions

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