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From Tempera to Oil: How a Material Shift Transformed Portrait Painting in the 15th–17th Centuries

Sometimes a change in the world of art looks like a change of style — a new taste, a new fashion, a new set of ideas. But some of the deepest transformations begin with something far more humble: a change of material. The move from egg tempera to oil paint, unfolding across the fifteenth to […]