Geschiedenis van de kleurentheorie in de zestiende eeuw.

Abstract

SUMMARY: What Leonardo da Vinci said about the colours, hardly only has to with painting. Gregorius Reisch (†1525) treats some opinions on the colours. Alessandro Piccolomini (1508-1578) occupied himself with the rainbow. Simon Potius (1496-1554) sees a relation between the colours and the four elements, while Bernardino Telesio (1508-1588) points to warm and cold to declare the colours. Further are treated Hieronymus Cardanus (1501-1576), Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484-1558), Francisco Vicomercati († 1570), Johannes Fleischer (1539-1593). Delia Porta (1535-1615) is important, because he worked with a prism. Jacob Zabarella (1532-1589) is, like the preceding authors on the colours, trying to give an explanation with the four elements. The same is the case with the Jesuits of Coimbra (ca. 1600). The sixteenth century shows, that the supposed difference between the apparent and the permanent real colours continued.