Sights (art)
Sight is a name for an order drawing, a draft, a crack, a construction plan or a sketch for a work of art. The term was mainly used in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. If the customer liked the sight, then the painter would paint his picture afterwards, the sculptor would carve his sculpture or the architect would build it. The word is derived from the Latin videre , see, from.
The earliest mention of a sight for a sculptural work is the contract of 1272 for the shrine of St. Gertrude von Nivelles in the Nivelles monastery in Belgium: The shrine was to be made “... selonc le pourtrature que maistre Jakenez d'Anchin li orfevre at fait "," According to the sights that Master Jacquemon d'Anchin the goldsmith made ". In Germany, the first contract that required a visor was signed in 1421 with the Austrian painter and sculptor Hans von Judenburg; it was about a painted altar. Sometimes, after the work was completed, a check was made to determine whether the sight had been worked exactly. Usually, however, the client did not expect precise compliance; According to a contract with Adam Kraft , the order was only "visually visually", "approximately visually". These are medieval examples. At the time of the Baroque, Franz Joseph Spiegler requested his drafts for the ceiling frescoes of the Church of St. Remigius (Merdingen) from the client back with any complaints, "which I expect to hear in writing", "which I then with mine expect returned sights in writing ”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sight in: The large art dictionary by PW Hartmann online . Retrieved January 2, 2015.
- ^ Sculptor's drawing in the Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte Volume 2, Column 627.
- ^ Sculptor's drawing in the Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte Volume 2, Column 628.
- ^ Raimund Kolb : Franz Joseph Spiegler 1691–1757. Wilfried Eppe Verlag, Bergatreute 1991. ISBN 3-89089-019-9 , p. 489.