The study investigates the possible role of protein additives to oil paint. “They can strongly influence the flow behavior of paints, i.e., their brushability and impasto, and hence the initial ...

Researchers at the Rijksmuseum restoring Rembrandt's 'The Night Watch' found the artist used egg yolk in his impasto paint. But the mystery remains why the artist used the organic material in his ...

Rembrandt van Rijn's paintings are renowned for their masterful representations of light and shadow and a characteristic plasticity generated by a technique called impasto. Now, scientists have ...

The composition of oil paints is incredibly simple. Early forms were created using a combination of organic pigments found in nature and a drying, binding oil – the most common of which was ...

Rembrandt probably used wheat flour to make his paints stickier and more transparent, among other properties. Identifying ingredients in old paintings can help curators decide how best to maintain ...

Amidst his palette of reds and browns, Rembrandt used wheat, according to a new state-of-the-art analysis of two of his works. Rembrandt himself appears in this self-portrait, created in 1629. Corbis ...

Computer paints 'new Rembrandt' after old works analysis. Published. 6 April 2016. Share. close panel. Share page. ... It was then 3D-printed to give it the same texture as an oil painting.