The grass foreground and stone background in Sandro Botticelli's The Lamentation of Christ are painted with oil paints that chemical analysis has determined contain protein traces. (Bavarian State ...

The 15th century represents an important transition in art history, as oil paints gradually replaced egg-based tempera paints as the painting medium of choice. During the transition period, artists ...

Engineers at Rutgers University have developed a process to recycle waste latex paint -- the largest component of household hazardous waste -- by blending it with common plastics. In laboratory ...