A plain wood furniture or panel makes for a tempting canvas for artists who like to play around with surfaces. However Painting on Wood is a very old art. The most popular form of which is “panel painting”.
In fact it was the most popular medium of paintings before canvas took over in the 16th century.
The most famous example of panel painting is the illustrious Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci.
The History of Painting on Wood
The earliest possible examples of Wood panel paintings can be found in Rome and Greece and can be dated back to the Byzantine times. However by the 9 th century it was almost lost. In the late 12 th century this medium gained popularity again in Western Europe because now there was a new practice wherein the priest and the public was in the same side of the altar of the church. The wall behind the altar was free for display of paintings and an innovative medium for religious paintings was devised. Most of these paintings depicted Jesus Christ, Saints and Virgin Mary.
But by the 15 th Century this art form found a new face and it was no longer religious in nature, the concept of humanism gave it a more secular character and individual practice of it was encouraged.
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