Crivelli – Mixed media
The use of a mixed technique can be recognized for most of the paintings between the Fourteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: in fact, if we define the paintings whose only binder is egg yolk as “egg tempera” …
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Botticelli – The tempera grassa
The transition from egg tempera to oil technique was, unlike what is usually thought, particularly slow and gradual and meant much more …
Van Eyck – Oil painting in Flanders
Flemish painting of the Fifteenth Century is characterized by a limpid and glazed material obtained by successive superimpositions of thin mixtures. The oil binder …
Cleaning
By cleaning a painting we mean: – the removal of surface stains – the removal of surface dirt – the removal of overpaint – the removal of altered protective layers …
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