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Oil paintings are made by using a mixture of oil and color. When the oil dries out, the color remains there by making the painting alive. Earlier linseed oil was used to make oil paints that are used in oil paintings. There are various oil paintings like Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci, Self Portrait, At Work, by Anders Zorn, The Francesco St Jerome by Palma il Giovane, Circa, The Cliffs at Etretat, Claude Monet are some of the examples of the oldest and the most famous of all French Style Bed

Oil paintings have been around for centuries, scientists have found the oldest oil painting in the world in Bamnian, a place 145 miles away from Kabul, Afghanistan. Its said to be as old as 7th century A.D. Pictures of Buddhist mural was painting used oil and resin based paint in those caves. There are other painted pictures of Buddhist mural in those caves which are said to be near 5th to 9th century A.D.

There is a technique that artists follow in order to paint an oil painting in which the painter ...
... sketches the subject on the canvas with charcoal or thinned paint. One can use cold wax or resin or varnish or linseeds to create oil based paint. This paint is carefully applied by the artist according to his/her desire and allowed to dry, which usually takes about 1-3 weeks. The final product is much more beautiful, realistic and durable then ordinary paint. Since an oil based painting takes a lot of time to dry, the artist can change the color according to his/her wish. The below mentioned paintings are few of the many famous original oil paintings from many notable artists that are very expensive and dear to all art lovers and also suffice as a unique home furnishing component.Luxury Furniture

The Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck, 1434
Self portrait, Titian, c. 1512
La donna velata, Raphael, 1516
The Rape of Europa, Titian, 1562
The Raising of the Cross, Peter Paul Rubens, 1610–11
Bust of an old man with helmet, Rembrandt, 1630
Innocent X, Velázquez, c 1650
Self portrait, Rembrandt, 1658
Milkmaid, Johannes Vermeer, 1658–60
Pilgrimage to Cythera, Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1721
The Toilet of Venus, François Boucher, 1751
The Blue Boy, Thomas Gainsborough, 1770
Napoleon Crossing through the St. Bernard Pass, Jacques-Louis David, 1801
The Third of May 1808: The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid, Francisco Goya, 1814
Impression, Sunrise, Claude Monet, 1872
Le Moulin de la Galette, Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1876
Carnation Lily Lily Rose, John Singer Sargent, 1885–1886
Portrait of Dr. Gachet, Vincent van Gogh, 1890
The Cardplayers, Paul Cézanne, 1892
Water Lilies, Claude Monet, 1916