Along with creating some of the most beautiful ... paints to create a medium called egg tempera. This technique dates back to ancient Egypt and can be found on many of the paintings from the Old ...

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 ... understanding of how beautiful artworks were ...

The most expensive Old Master painting ... art dealing." The figure of Minerva is illuminated by a pattern of light in the shape of a diamond that encloses the center of the painting.

Here we re-tell the Christmas story in 10 of the most beautiful Old Master paintings ... the Florentine Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli to paint the archangel Gabriel visiting the Virgin ...

An Old Master ... such a revered Old Master was just lying there gathering dust over the years.' The work featured hook-nosed, humpbacked clowns who were one prominent figure in Commedia dell ...

A “devil-like figure” featured in a painting by a renowned artist that’s more than 230 years old has been rediscovered after a recent restoration. The discovery came as a result of ...

In the lower register of Raphael’s The Transfiguration– the famous final painting by the High Renaissance master, painted precisely 500 years ago – a figure cut from the same cloth (thought ...

While growing up in Springfield, Eliza Moser said she yearned to understand and perfect the technique of Old Masters painting ... not only because it is a “beautiful little town” but ...