Oil painting

Oil painting

The art or practice of painting using oil-based paint.

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Doni Tondo

Arts & crafts; Oil painting

The Doni Tondo or Doni Madonna, sometimes called The Holy Family, is the only finished panel painting by the mature Michelangelo to survive. Now in the Uffizi in Florence, Italy, and still in its ...

Water Snakes

Arts & crafts; Oil painting

Painted by using various techniques, from watercolour to tempera, to using gold leaf on parchment. The composition proposes stretched figures in slender shapes typical of the Jugendstil, but its ...

Adam and Eve

Arts & crafts; Oil painting

Incomplete painting, it takes a symbolic significance for its biblical subject as well as Eve's facial rendering, with her reclined head and a sweet yet enigmagtic smile. The lower section, with ...

Lady with Feather Hat

Arts & crafts; Oil painting

Also known as Black Feather Hat, the red hair and the disproportionate hat were already present in Klimt's Lady with Hat and Feather Boa. The unfinished style, unusual for the Austrian artist, ...

Portrait of a Lady

Arts & crafts; Oil painting

Rendered in a brisk and vivacious style, the portrait is pervaded by a serene spirit, unusual for Klimt. here he alters the face's realism with bright colour daubes, thus reaching an ...

The Mona Lisa is widely recognized as one of the most famous paintings in the history of art. It is a half-length portrait of a seated woman painted in oil by Leonardo da Vinci during the Renaissance ...

The Kiss

Arts & crafts; Oil painting

A perfect square, the canvas depicts a couple embracing, their bodies entwined in elaborate robes decorated in a style influenced by both linear constructs of the contemporary Art Nouveau style and ...