Researches in the Scientifically Oriented Examination Methods of European Painting

研究的目的是，两位艺术史学家，一位文物保护学家和一位文物保护科学家讨论了以科学为基础的绘画检查方法的可能性和局限性，如x射线和红外摄影，以澄清这些方法对艺术史研究的有用程度，同时也说明了这些方法在艺术史研究中存在的问题。17世纪荷兰绘画专家T.Nakamura认为，今天的艺术史研究倾向于越来越重视科学检验。他还指出，尽管有这种倾向，传统的“鉴赏力”仍然在一幅画的归属中起着最重要的作用。意大利文艺复兴时期艺术专家M.Koshikawa研究了对维罗内塞画作的x光照片的理解争议。因此，他澄清了x光照片现在是艺术史上解释的新对象。保管员川口对帕蒂尼尔的一幅色联画进行了科学研究，并作了详细的报告。保护学家Kanba尝试了对欧洲各种绘画的科学研究结果的“解释”。这些研究得出的结论是，尽管科学研究对艺术史研究很重要，但我们绝不能忘记，这些研究的结果必须由艺术史学家和文物保护者“主观”地解释。

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.