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"Both medieval panel painters and those working in the fifteenth century created works that evoke the glow of precious stones, the sheen of polished gold and silver, and the colorful radiance of stained glass. Yet their approach to rendering these materials is markedly different. Marjolijn Bol explores some of the reasons behind this radical transformation by telling the history of the two oil painting techniques used to depict everything that glistens and glows-the varnish and the glaze. For more than a century after his death, the fifteenth century painter Jan van Eyck was widely credited with the invention of varnish and oil paint, on account of his unique visual realism. This was a myth, however, and after it was revealed as such, the remarkable verisimilitude of his work was attributed instead to a new translucent painting technique, a technique the artist could have only innovated with oil paint already at his disposal: the glaze.^

Glazing --- Glazing. --- Panel painting, Medieval --- Varnish and varnishing --- Varnish and varnishing. --- History --- Technique. --- Eyck, Jan van, --- To 1500. --- ART / General --- Glasur. --- Firnis. --- Maltechnik. --- Malmaterial. --- Ölmalerei. --- Technique --- To 1500 --- Geschichte 1100-1500 --- panel paintings [paintings by form] --- painting techniques --- varnishing --- glazing [coating process] --- varnish --- Medieval [European] --- Eyck, van, Jan --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1100-1199 --- Medieval panel painting --- Glass construction --- Glass --- Windows --- Enamel paints --- Varnish paints --- Coatings --- Finishes and finishing --- Japanning --- Lacquer and lacquering --- Paint materials --- Painting, Industrial --- Stains and staining --- Wood finishing --- Van Eyck, Jan --- van Eyck, Jan --- Ėĭk, I︠A︡n van, --- Eyck, Jean van, --- Painting --- oil paintings [visual works] --- Ölmalerei.