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The earliest known paintings, representing animals hunted for food, were made by Stone Age artists on the walls if caves of Lascaux, in France, around 25,000 BC. The cave contains nearly 2,000 figures. Over 900 can be identified as animals.
Plato an Athenian philosopher, who lived four centuries before the Christian Era, informs that painting had been practiced by the Egyptians for ten thousand years.
The oldest pictures in Egypt and therefore in the world, are on the walls of the grotto of Benihassan; they were executed in the reign of Osortesen I.
According to Pliny the Egyptians had been masters of painting full six thousand years before it passed from them to the Greeks.
The first colors were such naturally occurring pigments as red made from iron oxide, yellow and brown from clay ochre, and black from soot. It was not until 3000 BC that blue and green were obtained by grinding up lapis lazuli and malachite.
The earliest known European oil paintings are a series of late thirteenth-century Norwegian altar frontals.
There are some indications that these actually may have been painted with a mixture of drying oil and egg yolk. Analytical work suggests that linseed oil was the common oil in these early oil paintings.
The first synthetic pigments were developed after a British chemist, William Perkin, discovered a dye called mauveine. The first truly synthetic medium, based on coal tar, was develop in Germany towards the end of the 19th century.
History of the earliest painting
- Ancient Egyptian Painting
The Egyptian painters did not paint as they actually saw things but as they imagined them to be. The result is a highly ‘stylized’ picture which can be ‘read’ like pages in a book. Each animal and human figure in a painting is usually there for...
- History Of Painting Art In Greece
The earliest settlers of Greece probably learned painting from the Phoenicians and employed it after the Egyptian, Assyrian, and Phoenician manner, on pottery, terra-cotta slabs and rude sculpture. The Greek myths and legends were a vast source of subjects...
- The Invention Of Paint And Brush By An Egyptians
The earliest paintings known, prehistoric cave paintings were painted without any binding medium. The Egyptians probably invented the paint brush. They were also the first to manufacture what to be called paint, some 8,000 years ago. Their paints could...
- The Last Supper By Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was born April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy, small town near Florence. He was a prolific painter, sculptor, scientist and engineer. Leonardo completed few painting, for his scientific activities and numerous odd jobs for his patrons consumed...
- Painting Of Irises By Vincent Van Gogh
Irises is a painting by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, painted while he was at the asylum at Saint Paul-de-Mausole in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France in the last year before his death in 1890. Irises is one of the most unabashedly beautiful painting,...
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History of the earliest painting
The earliest known paintings, representing animals hunted for food, were made by Stone Age artists on the walls if caves of Lascaux, in France, around 25,000 BC. The cave contains nearly 2,000 figures. Over 900 can be identified as animals.
Plato an Athenian philosopher, who lived four centuries before the Christian Era, informs that painting had been practiced by the Egyptians for ten thousand years.
The oldest pictures in Egypt and therefore in the world, are on the walls of the grotto of Benihassan; they were executed in the reign of Osortesen I.
According to Pliny the Egyptians had been masters of painting full six thousand years before it passed from them to the Greeks.
The first colors were such naturally occurring pigments as red made from iron oxide, yellow and brown from clay ochre, and black from soot. It was not until 3000 BC that blue and green were obtained by grinding up lapis lazuli and malachite.
The earliest known European oil paintings are a series of late thirteenth-century Norwegian altar frontals.
There are some indications that these actually may have been painted with a mixture of drying oil and egg yolk. Analytical work suggests that linseed oil was the common oil in these early oil paintings.
The first synthetic pigments were developed after a British chemist, William Perkin, discovered a dye called mauveine. The first truly synthetic medium, based on coal tar, was develop in Germany towards the end of the 19th century.
History of the earliest painting
- Ancient Egyptian Painting
The Egyptian painters did not paint as they actually saw things but as they imagined them to be. The result is a highly ‘stylized’ picture which can be ‘read’ like pages in a book. Each animal and human figure in a painting is usually there for...
- History Of Painting Art In Greece
The earliest settlers of Greece probably learned painting from the Phoenicians and employed it after the Egyptian, Assyrian, and Phoenician manner, on pottery, terra-cotta slabs and rude sculpture. The Greek myths and legends were a vast source of subjects...
- The Invention Of Paint And Brush By An Egyptians
The earliest paintings known, prehistoric cave paintings were painted without any binding medium. The Egyptians probably invented the paint brush. They were also the first to manufacture what to be called paint, some 8,000 years ago. Their paints could...
- The Last Supper By Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was born April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy, small town near Florence. He was a prolific painter, sculptor, scientist and engineer. Leonardo completed few painting, for his scientific activities and numerous odd jobs for his patrons consumed...
- Painting Of Irises By Vincent Van Gogh
Irises is a painting by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, painted while he was at the asylum at Saint Paul-de-Mausole in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France in the last year before his death in 1890. Irises is one of the most unabashedly beautiful painting,...