“Inhabitants of rustic parts of the world”: John Locke’s collection of drawings and the Dutch Empire in ethnographic types

This article analyses a collection of 26 watercolour drawings which portray ethnographic types from the Americas, Asia, and Africa. These drawings, presently kept at the British Library, were made for John Locke by his servant Sylvester Brounower during Locke’s exile in the Netherlands in the 1680s.     

西安钟楼建筑彩画样品材质分析

为了研究西安钟楼建筑彩画的制作材料,本工作采用超景深显微镜、X射线荧光分析仪、X射线衍射仪和气相色谱质谱联用仪对西安钟楼建筑彩画样品进行了分析。结果表明,该彩画样品地仗层采用单披灰制作工艺,两层红色颜料都是土红,绿色颜料使用了近代人工合成颜料——巴黎绿,胶粘剂含有动物胶。该研究成果对西安钟楼彩画后期修复保护材料和工艺的选择具有指导意义。     

Picturing knowledge: Chinese brushwork illustrations of Western natural history in a late Qing periodical, 1907–1911

In recent years, a number of studies have examined the introduction of Western learning into China after the late nineteenth century. Many of these works discuss how Chinese scholarship might have been reshaped by Western classification and structure of knowledge, and ask how it absorbed and adopted the vocabulary and language of Western learning. While defining the newly emerged idea of “national essence”, late Qing Chinese literati, notably the members of the Society for Preserving National Learning, also tried to incorporate Western scientific knowledge, as they understood and perceived it, into the framework of Chinese learning. From 1907–1911, more than a hundred botanical and zoological illustrations, drawn more or less according to Western scientific norm, appeared in Guocui xuebao, a journal published by the Society for Preserving National Learning. These pictures are an indication of the attempts made by late Qing Chinese literati to integrate Chinese and Western scholarship. Focusing on these drawings, this paper examines how the painter Cai Shou might have adopted and applied the natural history knowledge and the drawing techniques he acquired through various means. It also asks with what ideal late Qing and early Republican Chinese literati might have identified themselves.     

古建油饰彩画的制作技术分析研究

为了对中国特有的古建油饰彩画制作技术加深了解,促进古建油饰彩画传统工艺科学化,采用X射线衍射仪、X射线荧光光谱仪、扫描电镜、体视显微镜等仪器对采自蒙古博格达汗宫博物馆、北京颐和园、甘肃嘉峪关、山西太符观等古代建筑的油饰彩画样品的制作技术进行了分析研究。结果表明,测试的样品分别采用了一麻五灰、一布四灰、单披灰等多种工艺制作地仗;麻纤维广泛应用于样品纤维层中,仅样品YHY-22使用了棉布;颐和园和博格达汉宫博物馆的样品以砖灰作为地仗无机填料,嘉峪关样品使用了白土粉,而山西古建样品则可能使用当地的土壤。可以得出结论:几个地区古建油饰彩画的制作材料和技术是有所不同的。     

Historical Ship Graffiti on the Walls of San Juan's Spanish Defence System: an Interim Report

This project intends to document graffiti identified on the walls of the defence system of San Juan, Puerto Rico, in a collaborative effort between the author and the National Park Service. The initial proposal envisaged a maximum of 8 or 9 ship drawings previously identified by the Park's personnel. Fieldwork has hugely expanded that number—so far over 400. Preliminary evaluation of the ship-types identified suggests the presence of a visual representation of ship-type evolution, at least from the 18th to the first half of the 20th centuries.
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Nationality and children's drawings — pictures ‘about Scotland’ by primary school children in Edinburgh,Scotland and Syracuse,New York State

The way that children perceive and understand places and locations is an area of geographical research that had an intermittent history until the 1990s saw a sustained interest in ‘children's geographies’. Here I build upon these studies and those of spatial cognition, developmental psychology, constructions of nation and nationality, by asking children to draw pictures about a nation. I review this methodology and analyse drawings collected from work with children in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Syracuse, New York State. I obtained 127 pictures ‘about Scotland’ drawn by six to nine year olds. These drawings reveal a range of stereotypical images of Scotland that are learned, both nationally and internationally, by this early age. They also suggest that knowledge and experience of Scotland varies by school district in each location and that these children often intertwine personal and national narratives when representing Scotland.     

古代壁画、彩绘显现剂应用机理和性能研究

针对粘结硬质、钙化土锈的壁画和彩绘在保护修复中使用的去除剂和显现加固剂复合应用后对其性能进行了研究测试。从光学角度对明胶膜和加样后膜折射率进行测试,对土锈剩余层粒径与厚度进行测试,又从耐久性、柔韧性等方面对两种试剂复合用的模拟壁画进行了系统评价。结果表明:两种膜的折射率几乎相同,当土锈剩余层粒径在120μm以内,厚度在70μm内的土粒都可以通过显现加固剂进行显现,恢复其古朴原貌,且不触及颜料层。复合应用后对模拟样板老化后性能测试,数据显示各方面性能良好。     

三门峡彩绘陶器保护浅析

在中华民族的文明史上,陶器是先民们遗留下来的最宝贵的财富之一。陶器的制作经过长期的发展,不同时期、不同地域的器物无论造型、装饰等,都具有各自的特点。彩绘陶器的出现则把陶器的装饰工艺推倒了一个新的高度。 三门峡出土的彩绘陶器主要是战国、汉唐及宋代的实物,到目前为止,累计有近百件。其特点是在烧好的陶器（陶胎的火候一般较高）上,用红、黄、白、黑等矿物颜料绘出多种装饰图案。虽然用色仅有几种,但由于对色料的运用及图案的设计比较协调和自然,产生了强烈的艺术效果,是研究历史文化不可多得的实物资料。但是,这些彩…     

秦始皇陵园考古新发现

秦始皇陵园的考古工作经历了一个较长时期,已出土公布了大量重要文物及遗址。最近,考古工作者又先后发掘出土了几座陪葬坑及石质甲胄、青铜鼎、彩绘俑等珍贵文物。这一系列重大考古发现对丰富秦陵内涵和研究中国古代陵墓有极为重要的意义。     

Reconstruction Housing in North Norway: Gender and the Reception of the Modern Era

Abstract

At the end of the Second World War, large areas of North Norway had to be rebuilt as a result of war damage. It is estimated that 12,000 dwellings housing 60,000 people were ruined. The limited funds available necessitated a low-budget form of housing when the area was rebuilt. The government perceived in this situation the possibility of house modernization, for which standardized, pre-approved drawings were a solution. This paper focuses on the reconstruction houses and the discussion about what kind of house was most suited to the area. It refers to the housing involvement of one of the female architects, and to the architects in general as mediators between the central authorities in the south and the people/local government in the north. It also sheds some light on the decisions made at a family level concerning the question of housing. Gender differences in the acceptance of, or resistance to, the modernization of these dwellings during the reconstruction period (1945–1960) in North Norway form the main topic of this article.