SOFT (adj.)

DOUX (fra.) · MORBIDO (ita.) · MÜRB (deu.) · SACHT (deu.) · SANFT (deu.) · ZACHT (nld.) · ZART (deu.)
TERM USED AS TRANSLATIONS IN QUOTATION
DOUX (fra.)
TERM USED IN EARLY TRANSLATIONS
DÉLICAT (fra.)

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But the Handling may be such as to be not only Good abstractedly consider’d, but as being Proper, and adding a real Advantage to the Picture : And then to say a Picture has such, and such good Properties, and is also Well Handled (in that Sense) is as to say a Man is Wise, Virtuous, and the like, and is also Handsome, and perfectly Well bred.
Generally if the Character of the Picture is Greatness, Terrible, or Savage, as Battels, Robberies, Witchcrafts, Apparitions, or even the Portraits of Men of such Characters there ought to be employ’d a Rough, Bold Pencil ; and contrarily, if the Character is Grace, Beauty, Love, Innocence, &c. a Softer Pencil, and more finishing is proper.

Conceptual field(s)

CONCEPTS ESTHETIQUES → convenance, bienséance
MANIÈRE ET STYLE → le faire et la main