https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/blog/ The latest from GHCC » Global History and Culture Centre Blog (tag [Cheng He]) en-GB (C) 2026 University of Warwick Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:53:12 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss SiteBuilder2, University of Warwick, http://go.warwick.ac.uk/sitebuilder Abyan Scheme Adrianna Catena African History alchemy Americas Amy Evans Andes Anne Gerritsen anti-colonialism Argentina Art History Asian History Basque nationalism Benjamin T. Smith Bertie Mandelblatt Black Lives Bobby Tam British Empire Camilo Uribe Botta cartography Catriona Sharples Cheng He Chile Chris Hess Climate History Cold War Collections Colombia covid-19 David Anderson Decolonisation Digital Humanities Diplomacy Drugs East Africa Economic history Egypt Emanuele Podda Emma Orchardson Environmental History Ethiopia European Conference on African Studies European history Far Right Fleur Martin Food History Foundling Hospital French History Gender Geoffrey Parker GHCC Global History Guido van Meersbergen Guillemette Crouzet Hannah Dennett Helen Clifford Historiography History of Science History of Science and Technology Hong Kong Human Rights Imperial History Imperialism Industrialisation Interdisciplinarity Italy Jack Bowman James Poskett Jeremy Adelman Jessica Lambert Jim Hulbert Josh Patel Joshua Grey Kären Wigen Kendrick Lamar Kenya Labour History Lacquer Latin America Lisa Taberner Liz Egan Malawi Young Pioneers Maria Reyes Baztán material culture Mathilde Alain Mau Mau Maxine Berg Media Mexico Michael Bycroft Microhistory Museums Music Neoliberalism Networks Nicolás Gómez Baeza Niels Boender Orchids Pan-Africanism pandemic Patagonia PhD public health racism Reading Group Rhodesia Robert Fletcher Rose Miyonga Russia Sergei Zotov Serin Quinn SIngapore Social History Somak Biswas Sophie Greenway Sweet potato Television The James Collection Tirthankar Roy Transnational history Travel Trevor Burnard USSR V&A War of the Locust White nationalism William Harrop Yemen Zhu Jing Zimbabwe Untagged https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/blog/rendering_the_surface <div class="news-thumbnail" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px;"><img class="thumbnail" width="100" height="100" src="https://warwick.ac.uk/sitebuilder2/file/fac/arts/history/ghcc/blog?sbrPage=%2Ffac%2Farts%2Fhistory%2Fghcc%2Fblog&newsItem=8a1785d8797f4f5e0179839faae6091d" alt="image"></div><p align="left">The art of lacquer involves a glue-like material applied in layers to the surface of objects to make them visually dazzling. From the early sixteenth century, lacquerwares made in Asia were increasingly brought to Europe and highly valued for their quality. Later they were also included in European paintings. How did artists choose to represent this precious and mysterious material? In this blog post, <strong>Cheng He</strong> shows that a liquid substance like lacquer could be expressed on canvas with different emphases. It was at the same time assimilated into different genres and contexts in paintings, which conversely enriched the cultural meanings of lacquer.</p> Art History Global History Interdisciplinarity material culture Cheng He Lacquer Wed, 19 May 2021 07:55:49 GMT 8a1785d8797f4f5e0179839faae6091d