Why Did Old Masters Use Eggs in Oil Paintings? A new study explores how artists may have added yolk to alter the properties of their paints. Teresa Nowakowski - Daily Correspondent.

WHEN AN OIL painting is dried and finished, it is supposed to stay that way. Yet when Ida Bronken, an art conservator, began to prepare Jean-Paul Riopelle’s “Composition 1952” for display in ...

“Old Masters” such as Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli and Rembrandt may have used proteins, especially egg yolk, in their oil paintings, according to a new study.

An oil painting found in an upstate New York shed covered in bird droppings was discovered to be a rare piece of art. ... the head of the Old Master Paintings department at Sotheby's in New York, ...