The Danish Golden Age just got a bit more golden, thanks to a team of experts who inadvertently corroborated, for the first time, that the era’s artists used beer to prime canvases. Researchers at the ...

Learning more about the materials used on historical paintings—paints, pigments, varnishes, and primers used to prepare canvases—is critical to ongoing conservation efforts. Apparently, many artists ...

Researchers examined ten paintings—including Two Russian Ships of the Line Saluting (1827) by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg—and found that seven included traces of proteins associated with brewing ...

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