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 ...

In Rembrandt's time, artists mixed their own paints, which they then spread onto canvas in layers. Often, individual layers of the same piece of art contained different binding agents, pigments ...

“They can strongly influence the flow behavior of paints, i.e., their brushability and impasto, and hence the initial painting process," the study authors wrote. "Egg yolk also affects the paints’ ...

Visitors watch restoration work on Rembrandt’s The Night Watch at the Rijksmuseum on November 3, 2021. Photo: Robin van Lonkhuijsen/ANP/AFP via Getty Images.

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 ...