The 15th century represents an important transition in art history, as oil paints gradually replaced egg-based tempera paints as the painting medium of choice. During the transition period, artists ...

As for plein air painting, it's having a full-blown renaissance. A few years back, Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson told ...

Price often sets expectations before a brush ever touches the canvas, and this video puts those assumptions under close ...

Oil paint prices vary wildly, but how much difference do they actually make in real painting conditions? In this experiment, ...

In his 1550 volume Lives of the Artists, painter and architect Giorgio Vasari snuck in praise for the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck in his chapter on the Italian painter Antonello da Messina. Vasari ...