出版社：Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Santarém
摘要：The current image of the artist, with origin in the Romanticism, is associated with inspiration and irrationality and, therefore, usually it is not visible any relationship between art and science. A drawing of Stradanus (1523-1605) representing the discovery of oil painting by Jan van Eyck (c.1395-1441) shows another reality: a painter, as a craftsman, developing its activity in the workshop, in accordance with a contract, following the same models adopted by other painters, aided by assistants that laboriously prepare him the materials and the equipment or learn how to draw. The prolonged contact with the painting materials that takes place in this context provides empirical knowledge about the materials and their properties, which allows the use of pigments and paints in a rational way that only now can be conveniently explained. In the space of the painting workshop, art and science are deeply related. With regard to that drawing it is still mentioned the art dependence on the scientific and technological developments that, through the history, provided it with its materials and, on the other hand, the contribution given to mathematics with the discovery of the linear perspective by the painters of the 15th century.
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