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How Oil Painting from the Bamiyan Caves (7th Century) Became the Foundation of Rembrandt and Van Eyck Masterpieces

For most of the last five hundred years, the West told a tidy origin story about oil painting. The medium, so the story went, was perfected — if not outright invented — in fifteenth-century Flanders by Jan van Eyck, then carried south into Italy, refined across the Baroque, and brought to its emotional summit by […]