In 15th-century Italy, oil paints largely replaced egg-based tempera paints. But despite the shift, da Vinci and other old masters experimented with paints that mixed egg and oil together. Now ...

Italian archaeologists venturing into Pompeii uncovered another 2,000-year-old painting that looked like a modern-day pizza in June 2023. The fresco was dug up from volcanic ash in the Regio IX ...

“Old Masters” such as Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli and Rembrandt may have used proteins, especially egg yolk, in their oil paintings, according to a new study.

More abstract paintings show colorful foliage or decorative elements, photos show. Workers are still analyzing the rediscovered paintings and restoring the 700-year-old convent, officials said.

Object Details artist Caracci Notes Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 821-824 (Sale info: TO BE AUCTIONED). Catalogue of the Extensive and Valuable Collection of Original Italian Oil ...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers propose that Italian Renaissance masters – artists such as Sandro Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci – added protein to their oil paintings to prevent wrinkling ...

WHEN AN OIL painting is dried and finished, it is supposed to stay that way. Yet when Ida Bronken, an art conservator, began to prepare Jean-Paul Riopelle’s “Composition 1952” for display in ...