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 large tempera painting shows a group of colorfully clad people on a lawn, some eating or playing music, while others seem to be dancing.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 13, 2023
The colorized works are made of contemporary materials, including plaster casts, synthetic marble, marble, cast bronze, and 3D-printed polymethyl methacrylate, covered with marble plaster and painted in tempera with pigments based on original formulations.
From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2022
One of them, a tiny prayer book from the 15th century, is leather-bound with egg-based tempera paint and touches of gold leaf on parchment.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2022
Egg tempera is difficult and messy, painstaking and, at first, heartbreaking.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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