Sir Charles Eastlake, a former president of the British Royal Academy and director of the National Gallery, was one of the world's foremost experts on the techn

Unabridged and unaltered republication of the first edition originally published in 1847, under title "Materials for a history of oil painting."

Bridging the fields of conservation, art history, and museum curating, this volume contains the principal papers from an international symposium titled "Histori