The early history of pastel, from Robert Nanteuil, through the brilliant portraits of Rosalba Carriera, to Maurice Quentin de La Tour, and the hyperrealism of Liotard.
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The advent of wet-in-wet, canvas supports, fewer layers, impasto, and visible brushstrokes.
Introduction to a series explaining the history of oil paint, effects on techniques, hence on paintings themselves.
We know almost nothing about his life, and very few works can be robustly attributed to his hand. But he was one of the most important artists in history.
The earliest landscape paintings – and very many since – have fundamentally been visual records of the world.
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