SNELHEID (n. f.)

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{Hoemen de vlackheyt moet bekomen.} Daer-en-boven soo sal u dese manniere een seer goede wegh banen tot de vlackigheyt, en observatie van schoone dagen en eenparige groote schaduwen. Dese wort door de manniere van kantigheydt verkregen, soo wanneer datmen groote en generale donckerheden en lichten maeckt, sonder die door eenige andere dingen die daer in komen mochten, ofte door de snelligheyt te verbreecken, en te bederven; (…) en dit moetmen generaelijck soo in Naeckten, Kleedingen als andere Lichamen observeeren, die sonder daer op acht te geven lichtelijck konnen bedorven worden.

[suggested translation, Marije Osnabrugge:] {How to achieve flatness.} In addition this manner will lead you the way towards the flatness, and the observation of beautiful lights and evenly large shadows. These are obtained through the manner of angularity, when one makes large and general darkness and lights, without interrupting or spoiling it by any other things that may occur in it or by the quickness [ndr: problematic translation]; (…) and this should generally be observed both in the Nudes, Drapery and other bodies, which could easily be spoiled if one fails to pay attention to it.

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CONCEPTION DE LA PEINTURE → lumière
EFFET PICTURAL → qualité de la lumière