BRUYINIGHEYD (n. f.)

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Daer nae, ghelijck alle d’andere Konstenaers eenighe bysondere ghedeelten haerer Beelden, om deselvighe beter te doen afsteken, met licht verwen verhooghen en door een naebuyrighe bruynigheyd verdiepen, soo heeft hy [NDR: Pausias] den gheheelen Osse swart ghemaeckt, het wesen sijner schaduwe maer alleen uyt de kracht der gheweldigher verdiepinghe uytwerckende, en door een sonderlinghe verkortens Konst meteenen oock te weghe brenghende datmen sijne platte Schilderije voor een verheven de half rond beeld soude hebben aenghesien, en dat eenighe dinge daer in afbreukigh en puttigh stonden, die nochtans gheheel ende effen waeren, Plin. XXXV.II.

[Suggested translation, Marije Osnabrugge:] Afterwards, like all the other Artists heighten some specific parts of their Images with light colours and deepen them by means of a adjacent brownness to make them stand out better, as such he [NDR: Pausias] has made the whole Ox black, only expressing the nature of its shadow from the power of the marvelous depth, and by a remarkable Art of foreshortening simultaneously achieving that one would take his flat Painting for an elevated semi-round statue, and that some things stood damaged and pitted in it, that were nevertheless whole and smooth, Plin. (…)

PAUSIAS
PLINIUS, L'Ancien

In the English edition, this term is described as 'some mixture of black'. [MO]

term translated by / in JUNIUS, Franciscus, De pictura veterum libri tres, Amsterdam, Joannes Blaeu, 1637., p. 168 in JUNIUS, Franciscus, The Painting of the Ancients, in Three Bookes : declaring by Historicall Observations and Examples, the Beginning, Progresse, and Consummation of that most Noble Art. And how those Ancient Artificers attained to their still so much admired Excellencie. Written first in latine by Franciscus Junius, F. F. And now by him englished, with some Additions and Alterations, trad. par JUNIUS, Franciscus, London, Richard Hodgkinsonne, 1638., p. 275-276
term translated by / in JUNIUS, Franciscus, De pictura veterum libri tres, Amsterdam, Joannes Blaeu, 1637., p. 168 in JUNIUS, Franciscus, The Painting of the Ancients, in Three Bookes : declaring by Historicall Observations and Examples, the Beginning, Progresse, and Consummation of that most Noble Art. And how those Ancient Artificers attained to their still so much admired Excellencie. Written first in latine by Franciscus Junius, F. F. And now by him englished, with some Additions and Alterations, trad. par JUNIUS, Franciscus, London, Richard Hodgkinsonne, 1638., p. 275-276

Conceptual field(s)

EFFET PICTURAL → qualité de la lumière
EFFET PICTURAL → qualité des couleurs