Researches in the Scientifically Oriented Examination Methods of European Painting

这项研究的目的是让两位艺术史学家、一位文物保护者和一位文物保护科学家讨论以科学为导向的绘画检查方法，如X射线和红外摄影的可能性和局限性，以阐明这些方法对艺术史研究的用处和问题。17世纪荷兰绘画专家T.Nakamura认为，当今艺术史研究的趋势是越来越重视科学考试。他还指出，尽管有这种趋势，传统的“鉴赏力”仍然是画的归属的最重要的部分。意大利文艺复兴艺术专家M.Koshikawa研究了关于对凡尔纳人绘画的X射线照片的理解的争议。因此，他澄清说，X射线照片现在是艺术史上解读的新对象。川口保管员对Patinir的一种胰型进行了科学研究，并作了详细的报告。保育科学家坎巴在各种欧洲壁画上尝试了对科学研究结果的“解释”。这些研究得出的结论是，尽管科学研究对艺术史的研究很重要，但我们永远不能忘记这样一个事实，即这些研究的结果必须由艺术史学家和文物保护人员进行“主观”的解释。

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.