Title: Rembrandts schildermaterialen
Description: Rembrandt used egg and powdered glass in his paint. He made red from beetles and black from carbon obtained from burnt bones. Sometimes he painted on gold leaf... This booklet is about these and other materials Rembrandt used for painting, focussing especially on the paint and the ground on which he painted.
Subjects: Artists' materials, History
Places: Netherlands
People: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669)
Time periods: 17th century