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This oil painting on panel is dated 1595 and was given to the Abbey ... Vivarini died about 1499 and all that is known of the history of the painting is that it was purchased in Bath in 1894 and later ...

This period was a watershed in the development of History Painting. By the end, due to the dull prescriptions of the academies and the semantic confusion between istoria and history, the genre became ...

The aim was to make oil paint and ground reconstructions with as much accuracy as feasible in order to explore historical recipes and workshop practices. Recipe databases were created to ensure ...

While contemporary art movements and digital media have had an impact on modern interiors, oil paintings remain popular among ...

Narrator: The highest-quality oil paint can be up to 75% pigment. Throughout history, the most sought-after pigments have been worth far more than their weight in gold. And that's because they ...

Painting of Māori elder sells for £1.7m and becomes most valuable artwork in New Zealand history - ‘Thoughts of a Tohunga’ by ...

One of Marc's last figure paintings before he focused almost entirely on animals.The Red Woman, a striking and powerful image of a nude woman standing in a landscape of semi-abstract shapes and ...

This painting however, is of the America, an ordinary Hudson River towboat, piloted under numerous commands from 1852 to 1896 and grandly named after the schooner sailing yacht of America’s Cup fame.

Belagavi: A grand 20x10 feet oil painting of the historic Anubhava Mantapa, regarded as the World’s First Parliament, will be ...