Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest Renaissance painters, was a perfectionist who spent many years going over the same ...

While the rise of oil paint is associated with the Renaissance, paintings using poppy-seed oil have been dated as far back as seventh-century Afghanistan. But there's one key reason this paint ...

A 500-year-old painting from the collection at Hartwick College's Yager Museum recently got a facelift. According to a news release for the college, The Yager Museum of Art & Culture is celebrating as ...

The craquelure, or the web of fine cracks formed on oil paintings over time ... of the artistic strategies employed by the ...

The giveaway that this was from the renaissance artist’s studio included the use of shared egg tempera and oil paint with a base of double-coated gesso, all typical of paintings from the era.