STATELIJKHEID (n. f.)

DIGNITAS (lat.) · DIGNITY (eng.) · NOBLESSE (fra.) · STATE (NOBILITY) (eng.)
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… de selvighe moet noch voorder met ons uyt d’oude schrijvers aenmercken dat de voornaemste deughd van een nette en welghestelde Inventie aller meest in dese vier dinghen bestaet. In de waerheyd. In d’Opertuniteyt, ofte in de waerneminghe van een bequaeme geleghenheyd van tijd en plaetse, in de discretie, ofte in de bescheydenheyd van een tuchtigh ende eerbaer beleyd. In de Magnificentie, ofte in de staetelickheyd. Wat de waerheydt belanght; De Schilder-konst maeckt altijd vele wercks van de waerheyd, seght Philostratus Iconum Lib. I. in Narcisso. Ende ghelijck dien Historie-schrijver soo wel met bedrogh schijnt om te gaen, seght Ammianus Marcellinus {Lib. XXIX.}, de welcke eenighe warachtighe gheschiedenissen wetens en willens voor by gaet, als die eenighe valsche gheschiedenissen verdicht; even alsoo plaght de maelkonste in het uytdrucken der waerheydt op dese twee dinghen goede achtinghe te nemen, sy wil aen de eene sijde daer toe niet verstaen dat se yet soude uytdrucken ’t ghene men in de nature niet en vindt, men kanse wederom aen d’andere sijde daer toe niet brenghen datse yet soude overslaen ’t ghene men in de nature vindt.

[Suggested translation, Marije Osnabrugge:] …the same has to remark with us from the old writers that the main virtue of a neat and well-composed Inventie mainly consists of four things: In the truth. In the Opportunity, or in the observation of an appropriate situation of time and place, in the discretion, or the modesty of a disciplinary and honorable policy. In the Magnificence, or in the stateliness. For as far as the truth is concerned; The Art of painting always pays a lot of attention to the truth, says Philostratus Iconum Lib. I. in Narcisso. And like the History-writer manages to deal so well with deceit, says Ammianus Marcellinus {…}, that it appears to consciously pass by any truthful histories, when he poetizes some false histories; as such the art of painting tends to pay attention to these to things when expressing the truth, on the one hand she does not want it to happen that she would express that which one cannot find in nature, and on the other hand she cannot bring herself that she would neglect that which one finds in nature.

In the Latin edition (1637), most of the terms are given only in Greek. [MO]

magnificentie

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CONCEPTS ESTHETIQUES → grandeur et noblesse

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Aenghesien daer twee verschydene soorten der schoonheyd te vinden sijn, seght Tullius {Lib. i. de officiis}, waer van d’eene in de lieffelickheyd, d’andere in de staetelickheyd ofte aensienlickheyd bestaet; soo ist dat de lieffelickheyd, Vrouwelick; d’aensienlickheyd daer en tegen, Mannelick schijnt te wesen. Dese aensienelickheyd wordt door een ghelijvighe verwe ghehandhaevet, ghelijck de jeughdighe levendigheydt van een goede ghesonde verwe door de oeffeninghe onser lichaemen wordt onderhouden. […] Wat de vrouwelicke schoonheyd aengaet, de Konstenaers plaghten daer in allermeest op de bevallighe lieffelickheyt des aenghesichts te letten; het en is gheen schoone vrouwe, seght Seneca {Epist. 33.}, wiens dyen ofte armen prijswaerdigh sijn; maer wiens gheheele aenghesicht de wonderbaerlickheyd van alle d’andere leden vermindert ende verdooft.

[Suggested translation, Marije Osnabrugge:] Seen that there are to different types of beauty to be found, says Tullius {…}, where the one consists in the loveliness, the other consists in the stateliness or importance; as such the loveliness is Feminin, the importance, on the other hand, appears to be Masculin. This importance is maintained by a full colour, like the youthful liveliness of a good healthy colour is maintained by the training of our bodies. (…) What the feminine beauty is concerned, Artists tend to pay most attention to the graceful loveliness of the appearance; it is not a beautiful woman, says Seneca {…}, whose thighs or arms are praiseworthy, but whose complete appearance diminishes and sedates the miraculousness of all the other parts.

aensienelickheyd

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CONCEPTS ESTHETIQUES → grandeur et noblesse

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[...] want Zeuxis plaght de ghedeelten des lichaems wat meer toe te gheven, en de selvighe grooter te maecken; achtende dat de staetelickheyd ende Majesteyt sijner beelden door die middel vermeerdert wierd.

[Suggested translation, Marije Osnabrugge:] … because Zeuxis tends to give a little extra to the parts of the body and make them bigger; keeping in mind that the stateliness and Majesty of his statues increases that way.

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CONCEPTS ESTHETIQUES → grandeur et noblesse