Vanished Comforts - setting the context for the furniture and furnishings of Scotland 1500 - 1700.

消失的舒适 - 为苏格兰 1500 - 1700 年的家具和陈设设定背景。

• 批准号: AH/I024437/1
• 负责人: Charles McKean
• 金额: $ 6.91万
• 依托单位: University of Dundee
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Training Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2011 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FI024437%2F1
• 关键词: Vanished; Comforts; setting; context; furniture

This pioneering research seeks to fill a major void in our understanding of Scottish material culture during the Renaissance and Early Modern Periods - c. 1500 - 1700. It will focus principally upon identifying the type, quantity and quality of household furnishings and furniture in use in the greater houses. This is completely new territory since, outside music and literature, the effect of the Renaissance on Scotland has been underestimated or ignored. Using, primarily, the rich contemporary household inventories, this research will provide a historical frame and chronology for the NMS' national collections, within the context of similar material held by other organisations - such as local museums and the National Trust for Scotland. Building upon recent architectural scholarship, it should deepen if not revolutionise our perception and our understanding of Scottish culture during the Renaissance. It should also add to our knowledge of where the furniture came from and the patterns of patronage that caused them to be in Scotland. In particular, the research will address the hitherto unacknowledged role played by soft furnishings and textiles.The doctoral task will be to relate manuscript evidence - primarily inventories and testaments, but also, where available, records of commissioning or of import - to artefacts; and then to relate that to illuminate contemporary research about the use of the buildings. The outcome will influence both the way we understand the period and - in particular - the NMS' approach to describing and presenting the artefacts.

这项开创性的研究旨在填补我们对文艺复兴和近代早期苏格兰物质文化理解的一个重大空白。 1500 - 1700。它将主要侧重于确定家居陈设和较大房屋中使用的家具的类型、数量和质量。这是一个全新的领域，因为除了音乐和文学之外，文艺复兴对苏格兰的影响一直被低估或忽视。这项研究主要利用丰富的当代家庭库存，在其他组织（例如当地博物馆和苏格兰国家信托基金会）持有的类似材料的背景下，为 NMS 的国家收藏提供历史框架和年表。以最近的建筑学术为基础，它即使不会彻底改变我们对文艺复兴时期苏格兰文化的看法和理解，也应该会加深。它还应该增加我们对家具的来源以及导致它们出现在苏格兰的赞助模式的了解。特别是，该研究将解决软家具和纺织品迄今为止未被承认的作用。博士生的任务将是将手稿证据（主要是库存和遗嘱，但如果有的话，调试或进口记录）与文物联系起来；然后将其联系起来以阐明有关建筑物使用的当代研究。结果将影响我们理解这一时期的方式，尤其是国家博物馆描述和展示文物的方法。