Oil on copper
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Oil on copper painting is the process of creating artworks by using oil paints with copper as the substrate. This is sometimes referred to as "copper as canvas" because canvas is the most well known s
St Jerome (after Palma Giovane) – 1600s
Dead Frog with Flies – 1630 Ambrosius Bosschaert II
An Angel Appearing to the Wife of Manoah – Carlo Saraceni
St Francis Consoled by Angelic Music – Guido Reni
Carlo Saraceni
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Carlo Saraceni was an Italian early-Baroque painter, whose reputation as a "first-class painter of the second rank" was improved with the publication of a modern monograph in 1968.
Oil on copper
…times. The Flemish masters and other artists including Jan Breughel the Elder, Claude, El Greco, Adam Elsheimer, Guido Reni, Guercino, Rembrandt, Carlo Saraceni, Ambrosius Bosschaert II, Copley Fielding and Vernet painted on copper. They favored copper for its smooth surface which allowed fine detail, and its…
Anonymous, Portrait of Carlo Saraceni (1616)
Saint Cecilia and the Angel
The Madonna and Child with Saint Anne and an Angel, oil on copper, c. 1608–1610, Honolulu Museum of Art
The Vision of St Francis (circa 1615)