The color of the old masters was more granular and had more body than oil colors today. Anyone who has ever painted with hand-ground colors will recognize the difference.
How 1700s academies and rising professional status shifted focus to oil media—sparking experiments to find “lost secrets” and scandals like Benjamin West’s era.
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