After a sumptuous dinner, Trini put Van ? Drantion was sent to a special room to rest - he would be pleased with the full bathroom - it was a habit of the "place" to curry favor with the "central", and the Dutch of the 17th century were not exempt from it.

Loeb? Mr. Trini returned to his studio. It is a large room by the standards of any time and space, and it has large glass windows that are extremely luxurious according to European standards. This Mr. Trini's day-to-day work provides plenty of light.

The studio, like all the artists' studios, was a bit of a mess, with huge workbenches piled high with rolls of paper and paints everywhere – many of them European goods shipped from Batavia.

Plaster heads and statues are displayed on shelves along the walls, and easels and stools are arranged in a semicircle in the middle of the room. This is the equipment used in Trini's drawing class.

In one corner of the room, his carving workbench stands a half-finished stone carving - an order from the Australians to erect a small victory monument under the city of Chengmai. From design to engraving, it's all Leib? Triny is in charge. His order goes far beyond that.

In the history of art, the Italian Leib? Trini is an unknown person, but in terms of pure art and arts and crafts, he is a "master" in Lingao.

The studio has small coke ovens, crucibles of various sizes for melting glass and metal, and tables with tools for making glass and metal crafts. It was here that he made stained inlaid glass and various metal ornaments. From the lintel of the Senate inlay is marked with the words "??? E'wrought iron ornaments with floral Latin letters to various medals and coats of arms issued by the Senate......

The demand for fine art in Australia was so great that Trini found that his main time was not consular or intelligence work. It's busy to fulfill Australians' orders.

He sat down in his rattan chair, lit a cigar, and smoked slowly, playing with the aroma. Australian-made cigars are a local luxury. It is said that only the "senators" can enjoy it. But for Trini, Australian cigarettes are just a processed version of American tobacco – just like the cheaper paper cigarettes.

The luxury goods of this time and space, generally speaking, are characterized by remote and rare origins. The two complement each other, and they are rare in distant nature. Just like silk and porcelain in China, they are not priceless in China, although they are not everywhere. Once they cross the oceans and travel thousands of miles to Europe and the Americas, their value increases tenfold or twentyfold. The smooth arrival of a ship in port can bring back countless riches. Scavenge for odd and scarce items from faraway places. Long-distance trafficking to obtain high profits is the most common mode of trade in this shijie.

Australians, on the other hand, have always reinvented their objects, using secret methods that are unknown to increase their value. Whether it's the "Tang Princess" wine they used to sell in Guangzhou, or the cigarettes and cigars they sell now.

Strictly speaking. Australians don't have anything that Europeans and Chinese don't have - it can even be said that there is no real "Australian goods" other than their weapons, and the so-called Australian goods are all made locally in Lingao, using Chinese and imported raw materials.

The cigar is finished. The room was completely dark, and the Dutch servant, who always had a straight face, entered, came in with a candle, and carefully lit the gas lamp with an explosion-proof lampshade in the corner of the room. The whole room soon shone brightly.

After lighting the gas lamp, he withdrew. Trini's spirits began to lift - his disciples were about to come and study with him at night.

Don't know weishenme. Australians are keen to work at night, and of course they have this condition: the bright gas lamps make it possible for him to sit in a wicker chair and still see a large oil painting on an easel: this is what Lingao Seminary ordered. It will soon be used to decorate the Basilica of Bairen. The Senate half-forced, half-lured Trini's fifteen pupils to study the arts, several of whom showed great talent and had been adopted as his disciples: a 12-year-old girl who made Trini think about it every night.

Trini likes the Australian attitude towards women. They didn't care about letting women show their heads, going in and out of all occasions, making them craftsmen, farmers, engaged in all walks of life, having free contact with men, and even letting girls learn and act as officials, which made the whole social landscape colorful - especially Australians let female students all wear immoral short skirts, even up to their knees! It is said that on some special occasions, there are even women wearing skirts that show their thighs, Mr. Trini is not a person who has never seen a woman**, he is like all Italian painters, he has painted many women's **, but the appearance of a female student wearing a short-sleeved shirt and a short skirt can hook his ** more than a nude woman.

Australians are very enthusiastic about the ** women in the paintings, but the religious affairs officer He Ying clearly instructed him that when painting ** women, they are limited to religious themes - in most cases, they must have wings, and they can only appear on a few specific occasions, such as in front of the martyrs, in the sky behind the patriarchs, and in the church icons approved by the religious office, but there must always be one or two faces of some patriarchs in the saint figures in front, such as the dean Wu Shimang, who is dedicated to the Holy Son. It was the winged Moon who shot down the six-winged beauty with a flaming sword......

Of course, these unhappiness did not shake Trini's love for Lingao, and the Australians provided Trini with high-quality paper, canvas, dipping pens, high-quality ink, and previously unheard of absorbent pens and pencils.

Trini was very fond of the prolific painting tools, especially the drawing pencils: the various types of drawing pencils in different shades greatly reduced the painter's workload when sketching. As for the plaster heads, he admits that this is a wonderful method - many people who learn to paint cannot afford to buy marble replicas, and can easily make mass copies of the most beautiful sculptures for viewing using molds and plaster casting.

Four of his best students walked in, three boys and one girl, and bowed to him. Then walked in a young man in uniform. He stood up and smiled at the visitors: he could not speak Chinese yet, and he could only teach the lessons through a translator. And the translator with a serious expression is said to be a senator. He came here every day to act as a bridge between the students and him, never missing classes rain or shine, and the students he served were the most ordinary Chinese children from humble backgrounds, which made Trini full of respect for the Australian patriarchs.

Trini's teaching of these four students is a traditional way of mentoring. The apprentices do a little bit of auxiliary work that they can, observe what he does, and then give him some guidance. This was also the traditional teaching method of Italian artists during the Renaissance.

"What class are we having today?" The interpreter asked.

"The oil painting course starts with the most basic preparation for painting." Trini said.

In the 17th century, the painter had to be a craftsman first. In the old plane, you could go to the stationery store once and buy all the painting tools and start painting, but it didn't work in this plane. Whether it's a canvas, a paint, a grease, or even a paintbrush, it all needs to be prepared by the painter's own hands.

In one corner of the room there are many small drawers, filled with paints that have been brought in from Europe all the way. The pigments are not tubes, but all sorts of solid fragments, mostly minerals, but also plant and animal products, the most peculiar of which are the blue pieces of broken glass from Venice, which are used to make a more common blue. Tables are filled with bowls and dishes of various sizes.

Trini taught them how to select the pieces of pigment, how to break them into the right size, and grind them. Milling is gradual, first crushed in a larger bowl and then finely ground in a smaller bowl. until it becomes a powder of different coarsens that can be modulated.

The students gradually became interested in working. Curious and then serious, they helped Master prepare a poisonous potion: arsenic disulfide and mercury were dissolved in alcohol, and then poured into a wooden board to prevent silverfish. Then, they made the first weight, coated all the seams and cracks with a mixture of alabaster, resin and **, and then smoothed out the uneven heights with a piece of smooth grinding iron.

Work is always easy and quick when it falls into the hands of the Master, as if it were a kind of entertainment. Trini teaches the skills of preparing various oil painting tools while working: teaching students how to bundle brushes: from the thickest and hardest bristle pen wrapped in the lead to the thinnest and softest millet brush inserted in the goose feather tube: he has also tried to use the Chinese brush, but always feels that it is not very suitable.

The students were eager to try their hand – even though it was easy and easy to see the Master do, it was clumsy to do it themselves. Trini then slowly heats a pure grease in the oven: it is made from hemp seeds. Because of the slight hallucinogenic effects, the Senate required them to wear masks when using heat.

The students followed his instructions and rubbed small pieces of sheepskin with hot sesame oil against the drawing board. Allow the artboard to absorb the grease sufficiently.

"Rub it while it's hot, you won't be able to suck it in when it's cold." Trini kept instructing the students.

The young patriarch stood by with great interest, translating Trini's instructions and students' questions from time to time. Watching their every move with interest. He noticed that the Italian looked at the female students from time to time, and he smiled knowingly every time he was more focused when he instructed the female students. To be continued......