The special history of oil painting refers to (artistic) works painted with oil paint. It begins around the 14th century with the «invention of oil paint». Nobody knows when started history of oil paint, because it was invented by experiments in Italian artist’s workshops.
It got widespread in 15th century. It was popular in Europe. Because tempera wasn’t as elastic as oil paint.
With oil paints, artists could work longer and do harder works, because it’s easier to mix oil paints.
The Old painter Jan van Eyck (c. 1390 — 1441) is a hero in the history of oil painting. Together with his brother Hubert van Eyck, he ran a painter’s workshop that invented many phenomenal painting techniques.
Before that pictures were usually painted with tempera colors. Tempera is an emulsion, what means mixed oil and water.
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