EENVERWIGH SCHILDERYE (expr.)
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De Schilder-Konst bestaet voornaemelick in de Coleuren; seght Philostratus {In proemio Iconum.}; alhoewel sy ’t daer by niet en laet blijven; maer ghelijckse in de eenverwighe Schilderyen haere sonderlinghe kracht openbaert, soo schijntse nochtans in de veelverwighe stucken een gantsch andere Konst te sijn; vermids sy ons de schaduwen aenwijst; sy vertoont het onderscheyd, ’t welcke men in ’t gelaet van eenen rasenden, bedruckten, verheughden mensche plaght te bevinden; sy onderwindt sich de kracht van de glinsterende ooghen-straelen nae te boetsen, ’t welck den Ghiet-konstenaeren ondoenlick is;
[Suggested translation, Marije Osnabrugge:] The Art of Painting mainly exists in the colours, says Philostratus {…}; although they do not leave it to this; but like she shows her remarkable power in the one-colour Paintings, as such she nonetheless appears to be a very different Art in the multi-coloured pieces; as it shows us the shadows; it shows the difference, which one tends to find in the face of a raging, dejected, happy man; it makes an effort to imitate the power of the twinkling eyes, which is impossible for the Cast-artists [NDR: Sculptors in bronze].
Junius discusses colour (kleur) as one of the main elements of painting (schilderkunst, schilderij). He distinguishes between monochrome paintings (eenverwigh schilderij) and polychrome paintings (veelverwigh schilderij). Unlike sculptors, painters are able to depict the shadow and different facial expressions. [MO]
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Men wist in ’t beghin, eer de Konst door den gheluckigen arbeyd der ouder Meesters tot een gantsch wonderbaerlicke uytnemenheyd verheven was, van gheen andere als eenverwighe Schilderyen te spreken, diemen doentertijd Monochromata noemde; De Konst heeft haer selven eyndelick onderscheyden, seght Plinius {Lib. xxxv. Cap. 5.}, en heeft het licht en de schaduwe uytgevonden; de teghenstrijdighe verscheydenheyd der verwen opgeweckt sijnde door een onderlinghe beurtveranderinghe.
[Suggested translation, Marije Osnabrugge:] The light is then needed for Paintings, seen that the right colour of the shadow only originates in the vicinity of the light. Tertullianus {…}, when he wanted to prove that Hermogenes was a very slack botchy Painter, added nothing else than that he tended to provide his shadows their colours without any light. They did not know in the beginning, once the Art had been elevated to a very marvelous excellence by the successful labour of the old Masters, to speak of anything but the one-colour Paintings, which they then called Monochromata; Art has finially distinguished itself, says Plinius {…}, and has invented the light and the shadow; the constrasting diversity of colours having been incited by a mutual change in tide.