Oil paint is simple. It's just a mixture of oil and pigment. But depending on the color and quality, a liter of this paint could cost up to $1,100.

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...