ONVOLMAAKT (adj.)
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Even alsser niets en is dat te gelijck sijn begin en sijn volmaecktheyt t’effens en bekomt, soo zijn oock de Konsten (seyt Arnobius) niet te samen met ons gemoet uyt den Hemel gevallen, maer sy zijn hier op Aerden uyt-gevonden, {De Konsten zijn in haer eerste vinding onvolmaeckt.} en indien voort-ganck des tijts by weynigh en weynigh op-gemaeckt: Even so rauw en onvolmaeckt is oock de Schilder-Konst in haer eerste beginselen geweest; Ja soodanigh, dat de outste Schilders (volgens ’t geene Franciscus Junius uyt Aelianus aenwijst) {Naecktheyt der Schilder-Konst in de beginne.} genootsaeckt waren, by elcke af-beeldinge, de benaminghe met Letteren daerby te schrijven, op datmen mogte bekennen welck een Os, Egel, Paert, of Boom was.
[suggested translation, Marije Osnabrugge:] Just as there is nothing that immediately obtains its beginning and its perfection simultaneously, as such the Arts (says Arnobius) have not fallen out of the Heavens together with our mind, but they were invented here on Earth, {The Arts are imperfect in their first invention.} and developed little by little with the continuation of time: The Art of Painting was just as raw and imperfect in its first beginnings; Yes so much so, that the oldest Painters (according to what is cited by Franciscus Junius from AElianus) {The Nakedness of the Art of Painting in the beginning.} were obliged to write the name in letters next to every depiction, so one could recognize it was an Ox, Hedgehog, Horse or Tree.
ÆLIANUS, Claudius
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ARNOBIUS
JUNIUS, Franciscus