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 ...

The first-ever exhibition on Europe’s most important early female painter, Catharina van Hemessen, will open later this year in Antwerp and come to London in 2027. It starts at the Snijders&Rockox ...

We know that the Old Masters like Botticelli, da Vinci or Rembrandt used to add animal proteins, such as egg yolk, to their paints, to modify their properties and allow more sophisticated paint ...

17th/18th century large old master painting depicting a fruit seller with baskets of apples and fruit. Oil on canvas. Framed. Relined. Sight: 42 x 37in. Overall: 50 x 45in, 17th/18th century Oil on ...

74 x 52 in. (188 x 132.1 cm.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

Helen sat on the steps of the Prado, smoking a cigarette in the blazing heat of midafternoon while the museum was closed for siesta. By then she had been in the darkened galleries for five hours, ...