Analyzing a minuscule speck of paint from Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, a team of scientists discovered new clues to his paint mixture. The oil-paint mixture features plumbonacrite, a rare compound ...

Art conservators and historians study works of famous artists to, among other things, discover the artists' secret paint recipes. Now, using an imaging mass spectrometric technique, European ...

Art historians often wish that Renaissance painters could shell out secrets of the craft. Now, scientists may have cracked one using chemistry and physics. Around the turn of the 15th century in Italy ...

(CNN) - Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings may have had a secret ingredient. According to a new study, “old masters” like da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli and Rembrandt may have used egg yolk in their oil ...