After dinner.

Colin, who regretted that he had eaten too much, tried to collect his stomach and followed the Duke and his sister to stand up and leave the table.

"The construction time of this mansion is not very long, but it has been continuously expanded and renovated for more than ten years before it is what it is now."

Duke Fairmont Hawthorn was the first to walk down the wide avenue, his words clearly satisfied with his duke's palace.

The mirror-smooth floors and beautifully decorated walls, combined with the huge paintings that keep appearing on either side, give Colin the feeling of being in a large gallery.

"This is one of the early works of Sivera Icke, and although it is a little immature in technique, its melancholy and wild contrasts are already very evident......"

"Obote's 'The Old Man and the Ears of Wheat' is considered to be the most representative work at the end of the blue-and-white recovery......

"'Hourglass in the Sunset', the late masterpiece of Scivera Eyck, a masterpiece of the northern style, unfortunately not preserved, was burned in a corner during the Second Centaur War of Resistance of the Oshik Empire......"

“……”

The duke walked all the way through the corridor with his hands behind his back, telling the origin of these famous paintings one by one like a number of treasures, and finally stood still, turned around, and asked Colin:

"Do you have a favorite painter?"

Colin pretended to listen carefully, and nodded in agreement from time to time, but who knew that he was suddenly asked.

Painters?

Even in his previous life, he could barely say names like Van Gogh and Picasso, and now, wouldn't it be good for me to memorize one more formula at that time?

However, thinking of his senior sister's explanation, Colin finally stubbornly said:

"The work of Sivera Ike...... Well...... Very nice......"

The reason why I say this is because this name appears most frequently in the introduction of Lord Duke just now.

Obviously.

When you don't understand anything, at least you won't make a mistake by catering to the other person.

Sure enough, although Colin didn't let out half of his fart, Duke Violet still bowed his head slightly expressionlessly:

"You have a good eye."

Colin secretly wiped a handful of sweat, and just breathed a sigh of relief, he heard the other party ask:

"By the way, what do you like in terms of music?"

The duke's seemingly mild-mannered but actually damaging words made Colin almost beg for mercy on the spot.

But after seeing the senior sister's slightly encouraging smile, she said helplessly:

"I prefer the harp...... Well, its tone...... It's beautiful. ”

It's almost the only instrument in the world where he can say the right name.

As for the musical works, except for those wilderness tunes that are only popular in the old city and have a strong color flavor, I basically don't know anything, and if they were sung at this time, both the content and his singing skills would be enough for the Duke to kill him with a sword.

The almost perfunctory answer did not satisfy the duke, and the other party immediately asked:

"Harp...... Is it a field harp, or is it a North Olympic harp? ”

You kill me.

Colin wanted to cry without tears.

In the end, he swallowed his anger and said, "It's not bad, but the Field Harp prefers a little more." ”

He's already out of his face.

Ask Suicide Again!

Fortunately, the duke didn't embarrass him anymore, just nodded and continued to walk forward.

Soon.

Colin was drawn to several paintings with bright tones and clear lines.

Unlike most of the other paintings, which focus on people and landscapes, the content of these paintings is very realistic and precise, and the content seems to be dominated by certain physical objects.

When he got closer, Colin was surprised to find that the content of the paintings on it turned out to be mechanical works full of industrial style.

Although he didn't know much about the art of painting, Colin could see that the style of these paintings was incompatible with the others.

"'Magic and Machinery', nos. 1~6, the work of Sir Schiller Mora in his later years." The Duke stopped and explained when he saw him stop in front of this group of paintings.

When Colin heard the name, he was instantly interested.

Schiller Mora.

The late Grand Magician of the Principality of Gilman, a top expert in magical engineering, his research and teaching can be said to have raised the magical status of the Principality of Gilman to a higher level in one fell swoop, and even the entire Western Continent Alliance has benefited a lot.

What Colin didn't know, however, was that the archmagician, who had been awarded the Lord, was actually a painter.

"Sir Mora's painting skills are known for their precision and realism, and his early sketches were very popular with collectors, but later he entered the field of oil painting, but the response was mediocre."

The Duke of Violet stroked the edge of the frame with his hand and continued to explain:

"This group of 'magic and mechanical' works, which is the posthumous work of his later years, is extremely controversial, and most people in the art circle scoff at it, thinking that integrating magic content into painting is opportunistic, and the art critics in the Western Continent will not care about his identity as a great magician, and the day before Sir Mora's death, the "Gilman Art Miscellaneous" is still violently attacking him."

At this time, Colin's understanding of the modern continental magic system was no longer at the level of his apprentice, and he certainly knew something about a heavyweight in the field of elemental research like Schiller Mora, and even borrowed some of the existing achievements of the other party in the research topic of "Infinite Pairs of Regression Counting Constant Tendency Surfaces in the Positive Values of Non-Stretched Mapping Arcs".

It's a pity that Schiller Mora is far away in the Western Continent, and many of his research has been banned by the Gilmans, coupled with the poor speed of information circulation in this world, there are not many books about Mora by the Roman mage Tari.

Now seeing the works of this idol-level bigwig on this occasion, Colin is of course very interested.

He pointed to one of the paintings and said, "This should be the 'Flame Color Analyzer', which has a considerable role in the study of fire magic, and is now stored in the Gilman National Museum, with a very high level of use, it is said that the Holy Light Church is very interested in this thing, and has stolen it several times, and has lost three high-level believers and has not succeeded." ”

Colin finally came across a familiar area.

"I don't know much about this, you should be an expert." The Duke sighed: "Although the artistic achievement of this group of paintings is not high, because of Sir Mora's popularity, the collection value is very good, and I spent a lot of effort to buy it. ”

"The Duke's eyes are like torches."

Colin gave a well-timed remark, and then continued to walk forward.

For each of the six paintings, Colin gives an explanation based on his knowledge of Mora's research.

Until the last one, he took a deep breath and said uncertainly:

"Polymeric splitter?!"

The Duke looked at Colin unexpectedly and nodded, "Do you know this thing?" ”

"That's a good thing."

Colin said: "It is not very useful in itself, but it uses the precise refraction of the light system magic pattern to reflect the picture on the wall. ”

According to Colin's understanding, this thing is, to put it bluntly, an old-fashioned slide.

But instead of using a special transparent negative, this "polymerizer" can reflect all the images, and the effect is not bad.

However, for the world, the ability to map pictures to the wall is actually dispensable.

People here don't need to do PPT, except for the better light and shadow effect of the mapping, and the picture vision is more three-dimensional, it is almost worthless.

If you have that skill, it would be nice to just hang the picture on the wall.

However, the value of this "polymerizing beamsplitter" does not lie in itself, but in the fact that Sir Mora accidentally made a half-finished product while researching another invention.

And the invention that did not come to life until Mora's death was called the "phonograph".