Compared with the medium formulated by ancient Egyptians called tempera — which combines egg yolk with powdered pigments and water — oil paint creates more intense colors, allows for very ...

Walk through any major art museum’s historical galleries and you’ll likely encounter paintings created with egg tempera, ...

In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers created their own paint recipes ... a mixture of egg yolk, powdered pigment and water formulated by ancient Egyptians ...

We know that the Old Masters like Botticelli, da Vinci or Rembrandt used to add animal proteins, such as egg yolk, to their paints, to modify their properties and allow more sophisticated paint ...

Art historians often wish that Renaissance painters could shell out secrets of the craft. Now, scientists may have cracked one using chemistry and physics. Around the turn of the 15th century in ...

Old Master artists such as Sandro Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci may have added egg yolk to their oil paintings to overcome problems with humidity, surface wrinkling and yellowing, research suggests ...

That doesn't mean we're colour blind, more “hue illiterate”, perhaps – a situation not helped by the increasingly creative means paint companies ... the yolk of that egg you've rustled ...

Old Master artists such as Sandro Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci may have added egg yolk to their oil paintings ... and the effects of adding protein to the painting process, have been unknown.