'''When did oil paints become popular?'''
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[[File:1599px-Duccio maesta1021.jpg|thumbnail|left|300px|Duccio di Buoninsegna, <i>Maestà</i>, 1308-1311]]
While the dating of oil paint's origins are still under scrutiny, the technique of oil painting became widely popular during the fifteenth century. The medium, which revolutionized painting, supplanted the previously popular medium of tempera paint and afforded artists with greater versatility in their compositions in terms of the coloristic effects they could convey.