Sunday, February 21, 2010

Who invent OIL PAINT?

Who invent OIL PAINT (these wet media), how and when was it invented?Who invent OIL PAINT?
Although most scholars now believe that the ancient Egyptian, Greek and roman artists probably used some sort of oil-based techniques, traditional art scholarship usually names Jan Van Eyck a Flemish painter of the 15th century as the developer (or re-discoverer) of the modern oil technique - complete with pigment mixing and varnish fixatives. This , at any rate is what Vasari says in his famous, ';Lives of Artists.';Who invent OIL PAINT?
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http://www.cyberlipid.org/perox/oxid0011.htm

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