“Old Masters” such as Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli and Rembrandt may have used proteins, especially egg yolk, in their oil paintings, according to a new study. Trace quantities of ...

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 ...

But it has been unclear how adding egg to oil paints may have affected the artwork. “Usually, when we think about art, not everybody thinks about the science which is behind it,” says chemical ...

Art historians have known for some time that Old Masters such as Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli mixed egg yolks into their oil paints. Now, scientists may have discovered the reason why.

Over time these react with negatively charged components of oil called fatty acids, which have been severed from the rest of ...

During the on-ice ceremony at UBS Arena, the league gifted him a custom oil painting ... details about the painting on Sunday, including touching on a few hidden Easter eggs within the painting.

An artist who creates realistic oil paintings of the eggs his partner fries for brunch has so far sold more than 600 of them. When Daniel Halksworth first began painting food, he never expected he ...