PERFECT (adj.)

DOORLUCHTIG (nld.) · PARFAIT (fra.) · PERFEKT (deu.) · TREFFLICH (deu.) · VOLKOMEN (nld.) · VOLLKOMMEN (deu.) · VOLMAAKT (nld.) · VORTREFFLICH (deu.)
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PARFAIT (fra.) · VOLMAAKTHEID (nld.)

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Though Nature be the Rule, yet Art has the Priviledge of Perfecting it ; for you must know that there are few Objects made naturally so entirely Beautiful as they might be, no one Man or Woman possesses all the Advantages of Feature, Proportion and Colour due to each Sence. Therefore the Antients, when they had any Great Work to do, upon which they would Value themselves did use to take several of the Beautifullest Objects they designed to Paint, and out of each of them, Draw what was most Perfect to make up One exquisite Figure ; Thus Zeuxis being imployed by the Inhabitants of Crotona, a City of Calabria, to make for their Temple of Juno, a Female Figure, Naked ; He desired the Liberty of seeing their Hansomest Virgins, out of whom he chose Five, from whose several Excellencies he fram’d a most Perfect Figure, both in Features, Shape and Colouring, calling it Helena.

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CONCEPTS ESTHETIQUES → beauté, grâce et perfection