tempera
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Venetian painting of the Renaissance is richly, radiantly colored, mainly because it is oil-based, unlike the Florentines’ water-based tempera, which yields a more chromatically subdued result.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
The worthy effort to emphasize that much of the artist’s inventive genius — unfurling in thousands of manuscript pages, rather than oil paint and tempera — makes the dull staging a perhaps unavoidable conceit.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2024
Once the primer dried, she painted over it with metallic silver tempera paint.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2022
It’s not her first choice, but it’s the only option when it’s over 90 degrees inside and heat is turning the tempera paints strange colors.
From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2022
Egg tempera is difficult and messy, painstaking and, at first, heartbreaking.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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