VOORSLAGH (n. m.)

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Dewijl het dan kennelick is, dat de meeste volmaecktheyd onser wercken voornaemelick in ’t bevormen en schicken van de Inventie bestaet; dat oock het werck selfs meer dan half schijnt afghemaeckt te sijn, alsmen den eersten voorslagh des gantschen wercks met een goed en schickelick beleyd heeft beworpen; soo konnen wy daer uyt lichtelick besluyten, dat ons alle de behulp-middelen daer toe dienstigh vlijtighlick staen waer te nemen, en dat wy de hand noyt aen ’t werck behooren te slaen, ’t en sy saecke dat alle de bysondere ghedeelten onses eersten invals door den ernst van een diepe ende innighe verbeeldinghe in haere behoorlicke plaetsen verschijnen.

[Suggested translation, Marije Osnabrugge:] While it is then apparent, that most of the perfection of our works consists mainly in the shaping and ordering of the Invention; that the work appears to be finished more than half, when one has designed the first draft of the whole work with a good and orderly fashion; as such we can easily decide that we should readily observe all means necessary for it and that we should never give up on working, unless all the separate parts of our first idea appear in their right place through the dedication of a deep and intimate visualization.

This section does not occur in the Latin edtion of 1637 and is formulated quite differently in the English edition. [MO]

term translated by / 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.308-309

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CONCEPTION DE LA PEINTURE → dessin