Nova Reperta, The Invention of Oil Painting

PLATE 14. The Invention of Oil Painting. Fourteenth plate from a print series entitled Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times) consisting of a title page and 19 plates, engraved by Jan Collaert I, after Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, and published by Philips Galle. Illustration of a painter's workshop. On the left a woman sits for her portrait. In the foreground a young boy paints the female bust in front of him on the table, another boy prepares paint pigments, and a third paints a series of human eyes. In the middle ground at the center, a man paints Saint George slaying the dragon onto a large wooden panel. On the right two men prepare the oil paint. In the background, entering the workshop is a young boy carrying a panel of wood

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12695738

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47681582

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4500px x 3146px (5.7MB)

Credit

MMA/The Elisha Whittelsey Collection/Science Source/Mary Evans