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.
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
When Leonardo is an apprentice, painters in Italy use tempera: water plus color plus egg yolk.
From Literature
It includes “The Ghost of a Flea,” Tate’s rarely loaned, murky miniature painting in dark tempera and gold on hardwood panel starring a monstrous, human-insect hybrid looking hungrily into a bucket of blood.
From Los Angeles Times
In the workshop, led by the artist and educator Harumi Ori, young people will decorate their projects with tempera paint, letting their own imaginations take flight.
From New York Times
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