In his 1550 volume Lives of the Artists, painter and architect Giorgio Vasari snuck in praise for the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck in his chapter on the Italian painter Antonello da Messina. Vasari ...

Erhardt, W. David and Tsang, Jia-sun. 1989. "Oil Painting: History vs. Technology." In Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Seventeenth Annual Meeting, Cincinnati ...

Art historians often wish that Renaissance painters could shell out secrets of the craft. Now, scientists may have cracked one using chemistry and physics. Around the turn of the 15th century in Italy ...

Researchers think old masters like Sandro Botticelli, who painted Lamentation Over the Dead Christ, may have mixed egg into their oil paints to alter certain qualities. Fine Art Images / Heritage ...

"Unabridged and unaltered republication of the first edition ... published ... in 1847 under the title: Materials for a history of oil painting." Vol. 2: "This new ...