Fig. 1: Sandro Botticelli, The Lamentation of Christ, c. 1490/95, 140 × 209.2 cm, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Inv. No. 1075. | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: Sandro Botticelli, The Lamentation of Christ, c. 1490/95, 140 × 209.2 cm, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Inv. No. 1075.

From: A holistic view on the role of egg yolk in Old Masters’ oil paints

Fig. 1

Although the flesh and some draperies are painted in egg tempera, the grass foreground and the stone tomb background are painted with oil paints containing proteins. © Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich.

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