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Ever since collectors began noticing how the oil paintings of James Abbott McNeill Whistler have cracked, faded and fallen to pieces in 30 years there has been an ever-increasing interest among serious painters in the chemistry of their craft. Before the Brothers van Eyck popularized the use of oils in the 15th Century, almost all painting was either in fresco (pure pigment mixed with water and applied to wet plaster) or in tempera (ground pigments mixed with beaten egg and water and applied either to wood or canvas that is prepared with a plaster-like ground). Oil painting...
...Eyck's Annunciation was completed about 1434. From a church in Dijon, to Paris, to Holland, to the Hermitage, the canvas finally landed in Mr. Mellon's collection...
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...world's most famed religious paintings wrenched away-the most sensational art robbery since the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. Nobody today remembers Jodocus Vijdts, Lord of Pamele, but every art connoisseur knows the polyptich which it is said Hubert van Eyck painted for him in the 15th Century and Jan van Eyck, the painter's brother, finished. The brilliant, realistic twelve-paneled Adoration of the Lamb remained Ghent's and Belgium's pride, lost only partial glory in 1816 when two panels were sold to Prussia. By the Treaty...