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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 ...

I once asked an artist I know what he did about varnishing his oil paintings. I had read about "varnishing day" at the great salon exhibits in Paris in the 19th century and wondered what it was like ...

Though the term is used interchangeably with oil-based paints for most practical purposes, alkyd paints are actually not oil-based but alkyd resins mixed in some sort of thinner. When most people ...

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Around 2014, in his apartment in Harlem, a former real estate agent named Jeffrey Ventura Morell installed a large portrait of an 18th-century gentleman in his kitchen — right above his dishwasher, ...

Rembrandt wanted to move away from a “traditional, slightly dusty expression of craftsmanship” to an identity that feels more ...