BIJEENVOEGEN (v.)
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[…] dat de Schilderyen, achtervolghens ’t ghetuyghenis van Philostratus {Iconum. Lib. ii. in Rhodogyne.}, een gantsch bevallige welstandigheyd uyt soo veele verscheydene figuren ende beweghinghen ontfanghen; dat eyndelick die Schilders altijd in grooter verwonderingh ghehouden worden, dewelcke de voornoemde bevalligheyd door een gheschickte t’saemenvoeginghe van soo veele verscheydene figuren soecken te vermeerderen: d’Andere Konstenaers daer en teghen, die sich in dit stuck der Ordinantie niet met allen ofte seer weynigh hebben gheoeffent, ghelijckse met een enckele Schilderye redelick wel weten om te gaen, soo vindense haer selven gheweldigh verleghen, alsmen hun ’t by een voegen en ’t schicken van eenighe veelvoudighe Beelden-rijcke stucken opleght; sy plagten de vaerdigheyd diese in ’t kleyne hebben, in ’t groote te verliesen;
[Suggested translation, Marije Osnabrugge:] […] that the Paintings, according to the statement of Philostratus {…}, receive a truly lovely harmony from so many different figures and movements; that in the end those paintings are held in higher esteem, who attempt to augment the aforementioned grace by means of an appropriate composition of so many different figures: The other Artists on the other hand, who are not at all or very little trained in the subject of Ordinance, as they know how to deal with a simple Painting [NDR: with few figures] rather well, as such they are very much at a loss when one orders them the composing and ordering of some complex pieces that are rich in figures; they tend to loose the ability that they have in the little [NDR: format] in the large [NDR: format];
This section is not included in the Latin edition of 1637. [MO]