encaustic

Examples of encaustic in the following topics:

• Encaustic

  • The simplest encaustic mixture can be made from adding pigments to beeswax, but there are numerous recipes that can be used, such as other types of waxes, damar resin, or linseed oil.
  • Because wax is used as the pigment binder, encaustics can be sculpted as well as painted.
  • Other materials can be encased or collaged into the surface, or layered, using the encaustic medium to stick them to the surface.

• Tempera

  • Historically, tempera paint was often used in combination with encaustic techniques in numerous early classical works and religious iconography.
  • Tempera and encaustic painting techniques were discovered on many Egyptian sarcophagi decorations, including the Fayum mummy portraits .
  • The Fayum mummy portraits used a combination of encaustic and tempera techniques.

• Painting in the Early Byzantine Empire

  • Early Byzantine icons were painted in encaustic on wooden panel and, like Egyptian funerary portraits produced in the same media, appeared very lifelike.
  • Peter, produced in encaustic, bears lifelike qualities that eventually vanished from icons in favor of more stylized imagery.

• Mexican Muralism

  • Techniques included the revival of old techniques such as the fresco, painting on freshly plastered walls and encaustic or hot wax painting .

• Painting in the Greek High Classical Period

  • Panel paintings were usually done in encaustic or tempera and were displayed in the interior of public buildings, such as in the pinacoteca of the Propylaea of the Athenian Acropolis.

• Painting in the Early Roman Empire

  • These encaustic on wood panel images from the Fayum necropolis were laid over the mummified body.