The grass foreground and stone background in Sandro Botticelli's The Lamentation of Christ are painted with oil paints that chemical analysis has determined contain protein traces. (Bavarian State ...

The 15th century represents an important transition in art history, as oil paints gradually replaced egg-based tempera paints as the painting medium of choice. During the transition period, artists ...

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 ...

“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. Trace quantities of protein ...

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Artist Justin N. Kim paints vibrant depictions of L.A. neighborhoods from a bird’s-eye view, creating almost 3-D models of city blocks with oil paints. He recently spoke with How To LA about how he ...