Who is the inventor of oil painting?
Who is the inventor of oil painting? While ancient European painters were familiar with and enthusiastic about tampera painting techniques, they gradually discovered its defects and shortcomings, such as: difficult to blend and blend colors, not soft and bright enough colors, too much effort in the small brush line arrangement, and easy to mold and low impact resistance in wet weather conditions. For this reason, painters invented a way to protect their pictures by glazing them with transparent paint. Then someone in tampera bottom screen to do multi-layer transparent color cover dyeing, after called glazing or glaze dyeing, which forms a mixed technique, a non-Tampera painting is not oil painting techniques. Leonardo Da Vinci's Last Supper is an oily tampera painting. Leonardo Da Vinci made many studies and applications of oil pigments, but the technology was not mature enough, so many of his works did not survive. So, who was the inventor of oil painting? Using oil as a painting medium was experimented with in Byzantine times. According to records, such paintings would not dry after months of exposure to the hot sun. In 1200, monk Theofer Ruzius wrote a treatise on oil painting called diversified Art Forms, in which he introduced the use of flaxseed oil and Arabic resin. Paintings resembling oil paintings appeared in the British Isles at the end of the 13th century. In the late fourteenth century, two Dutch painters, the Van Eyck brothers (Jan van Eyck and his brother Hubert van Eyck), found a simple way to paint by melting oil into paints and created pure oil paintings. Art historians cannot claim that the Van Eyck brothers were the inventors of oil painting, but at least they found an ideal oil based painting medium based on previous experiments. Many experts think their greatest achievement is to add natural resin in the grease, so that the writing smooth, medium quickly dry. The wedding of Arnolfini by Jan van Eyck and his most famous work, The Ghent Altarpiece (23 paintings in the Church of Saint Bavon in Ghent, Belgium). It is regarded as an important work in the development of European oil painting. The van Eyck brothers invented the technique of blending oil, which is said to have been a mixture of a "blu daylight oil" and flaxseed oil, with which they mixed the pigments he had used in his Tampera paintings and found to work well. (Some researchers believe "buru sunoil" is a refined turpentine, which is still used to dilute oil paints.) Antonueuo De Messina (1430-1479), the earliest Painter to study and master oil painting techniques in Italy, is said to have learned the oil painting techniques of the Van Eyck brothers in the Netherlands and returned to Venice to teach the use of oil paints. Since then oil painting as an independent painting in the European continent popular. For hundreds of years, through the inheritance and creation of various generations of painters, oil painting has been further developed and improved.





















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