SPIEGEL (n. m.)

MIROIR (fra.) · MIRROR (eng.) · SPECCHIO (ita.) · SPECULUM (lat.) · SPIEGEL (deu.)
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MIROIR (fra.)
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SPIEGEL (deu.)

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Soo plegen verstandige Schilders haer in desen, van eenige behulp-middelen te versien, die haer in het oordeelen van hunne wercken eenighsins te bate mochten komen: {Behulpmiddelen om van sijn dingen wel te oordeelen.} Hier toe gebruyckten sommige den Spiegel, in welcke sy haere dingen als in een tegenstrijdige ende omgekeerden stand besagen; invoegen sy haer oordeel door het beschouwen van twee onderscheyde Vertooningen, op den Toetsteen brachten. ’t Is niet sonder reden datmen door dat middel de fauten zijner wercken kan naspeuren; want door dien omkeeringh van stant, veroorsaeckt dat de eyge Liefde omtrent onse Wercken niet in haer volle kracht en kan herschen, soo komen wy die aen te sien als het Werck van eenen anderen Werck-Meester, in welcke men (gelijck d’ondervindinge leert) altijdt veel gebreecken vinden kan: gelijck wy dat noch verder in ons tweede Boeck sullen aenraecken. Andere keeren hare stucken somtijts om, en sien die t’onderste boven, om alsoo uyt te vorssen of hunne dingen haer behoorlijcke Teyckeningh ende kracht hebben, ende behouwen: Gelijck dat mede door de Lijsten aende stucken te doen dickwils ontdeckt wort;

[suggested translation, Marije Osnabrugge:] As such wise Painters tend to supply her with some aids, which might somewhat be of benefit for judging their works: {Tools that aid to judge one’s own work well.} Some used a mirror for this, in which they observed their things in a contrasting and opposite position; as such they tested their judgement by observing two different displays. It is not without reason that one can detect the mistakes in his work by that means, because through the reversal of the position, it causes that one’s own Love for our works cannot reign in its full power, so we get to so it as if it were the work of another Artisan, in which one (like experience teaches us) can always find flaws: as we will touch upon this further in our second Book. Others sometimes turn their pieces around, to see it upside down, to investigate this way whether their things have a proper Design and power, and maintain it: As this is also often discovered because by placing the Frames on the works;

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SPECTATEUR → jugement
MATERIALITE DE L’ŒUVRE → outils