tempera

Examples of tempera in the following topics:

• Tempera

  • Tempera paint, also known as egg tempera, is a water-soluble paint made from a mixture of pigment in an egg yolk binder.
  • Tempera paint, also known as egg tempera, is a water-soluble paint made from a mixture of pigment in an egg yolk binder.
  • Tempera paint dries very quickly to a permanent, matte finish.
  • In fact, the colors of an unvarnished tempera painting resemble a pastel palette.
  • This tempera painting by the artist William Blake illustrates the Book of Job.

• Oil Painting

  • Oil paint eventually became the principal medium used for creating artworks, and by the height of the Renaissance had almost completely replaced tempera paints in the majority of Europe, although southern Italians continued to use frescoes for wall paintings.
  • Surfaces like shields — both those used in tournaments and those hung as decorations — were more durable when painted in oil-based media than when painted in the traditional tempera paints.
  • Oil painting also allowed for a more subtle rendition of light and a deeper color saturation than could be acheived with tempera.
  • Compare and contrast oil painting with earlier techniques, such as tempera.

• Gouache

  • "Guazzo", the Italian word for gouache, was originally the term for the early 16th century practice of applying oil paint over a tempera base.

• Panel Painting in the Northern Renaissance

  • During this time period, works of art were often painted on wooden panels and are referred to as "tempera on panel" or "oil on panel."

• Italian Gothic Painting

  • The tempera altarpieces of Fra Angelico bridge the gap between the International Gothic and Renaissance styles of painting, making use of Gothic elaboration, gold leaf, and brilliant color.

• Icon Painting in Byzantine Russia

  • Most Byzantine Russian icons were painted in egg tempera on wood panels.
  • The egg tempera icon was made for the Church of the Trinity in the Trinity-St.

• Painting and Architecture

  • Particularly in the Tuscan region, tempera was the predominant medium and painters tended to stay true to the Byzantine style.

• Fresco

  • Egg tempera is the most common binder used for this purpose.

• Leonardo da Vinci

  • Instead of using the technique of fresco, da Vinci had used tempera over a ground that was mainly gesso in an attempt to bring the subtle effects of oil paint to fresco.
  • Other characteristics found in this work are the unadorned dress, in which the eyes and hands have no competition from other details; the dramatic landscape background, in which the world seems to be in a state of flux; the subdued coloring; and the extremely smooth nature of the painterly technique, employing oils, but applied much like tempera and blended on the surface so that the brushstrokes are indistinguishable.

• Oil

  • During the 15th century oil paint became the principal medium used to create works of art, spreading outwards from Early Netherlandish painting schools in northern Europe until the high Renaissance, when oil paint had replaced tempera paint completely throughout the majority of the continent .