24 May
Copper

Painting on Copper

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While we do not know why oil painting on copper enjoyed popularity from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, we may be able to provide some reasons based on historical evidence linked to artistic tradition in both the cultural and economic context of the period.
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15 Feb
Copper

Painting on Copper—Origins

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The practice of painting in oil on copper had its origins in the sixteenth-century. What is not well understood is where in Europe the practice began. Whether it began in Italy, and especially in Rome, as Vasari reports in the biography of Sebastiano del Piombo, or in the Netherlands as Van Mander mentions was ‘the working-method of the Netherlandish painters’ is not certain. This article reviews the origins of the practice of painting on copper in Europe.
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