| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KANBA Nobuyuki The National Museum of Japanese History, Department of Information Studies, Asso, 情報資料研究部, 助教授 (50169801)
KOSHIKAWA Michiaki The National Museum of Western Art, Chief Curator, 学芸課, 主任研究官 (60178259)
KAWAGUCHI Kimio The National Museum of Western Art, Chief Curator, 学芸課, 主任研究官 (20249923)
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of the reseaches was that two art historians, a conservator and a conservation scientist discuss the possibilities and limits of the scientifically oriented examination methods of painting, as X-ray and infrared photography, in order to clalify how useful and, at the same time how problematic these methods are for the studies of art history. T.Nakamura, specialist of 17th-century Netherlandish painting, considered the today's tendency of art historical studies which give more and more weight to the scientific examinations. He also noted that in spite of this tendency the traditional "connoisseurship" still plays the most important part for the attribution of a painting. M.Koshikawa, specialist of ltalian Renaissance art, studied the controversy about the understanding of the X-ray photos of a paiting by Veronese. He thus clarified that the X-ray photos are now new objects for the interpretaion in art history. Kawaguchi, conservator, carried out scientific reseaches on a tryptych by Patinir and made a detailed report on this work. Kanba, conservation scientist, tried the "interpretation" of the results of scientific reseaches on various european paitings. These studies led to the conclusion that in spite of the importance of scientific researches for the studies of art history, we must never forget the fact that the results of these researches must be "subjectively" interpreted by art historians and conservators.
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