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This drawback led a German monk, Theophilus , in the 12th century to warn against paint recipes including olive oil. It was reported that Aetius Amidenus , a medical writer in the 5th century, mentioned the use of a drying oil as a varnish on paintings. Similarly, it seems that perilla oil was used in Japan in painting after addition of lead in the 8th century. According to Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) the technique of oil painting, as used till now with few technical modifications, was invented or re-invented in Europe around 1410 by Jan van Eyck (1390 -1441).
For example, when television was invented, it was immediately announced that it would utterly replace both radio and movies. It has done neither. When chemical photography was invented in the early 19th Century, the conventional wisdom was that it heralded the doom of painting. It has never done so, nor do I believe it ever will. But many painters were, and continue to be quick to utilize photography as a tool.