OPMAECKINGE (n. f.)

BONFAIT, Olivier, « COMPOSITION », dans HECK, Michèle-Caroline (éd.), LexArt. Les mots de la peinture (France, Allemagne, Angleterre, Pays-Bas, 1600-1750) [édition anglaise, 2018], Montpellier, Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2018, p. 133-138.

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[...] even alsoo schijnt den grooten overvloed van een volle en vruchtbaere materie in ’t schilderen anders niet te sijn, dan eenen onlieffelicken hoop van ettelicke woeste en wildelick verstroyde figuren, ’t en sy datse door ’t behulp van een bequaeme schickingh-konst by een ghebraght en tot opmaeckinge van de gantsche Schilderye ’t saemen ghevoeght worden.

[Suggested translation, Marije Osnabrugge:] …in the same manner the great abundance of a full and furtile matter in painting appears to be nothing else but a mean bunch of several angry and wildy dispersed figures, unless they are assembled by means of a capable art of composing and combined in the composition of the whole painting.

term translated by ORDO in JUNIUS, Franciscus, De pictura veterum libri tres, Amsterdam, Joannes Blaeu, 1637., p.190
term translated by ORDER 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.308

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CONCEPTION DE LA PEINTURE → composition