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 panel advised the bank to restitute the 1907 tempera painting, “Colorful Life,” to the heirs of Emanuel Albert Lewenstein, the director of a sewing machine factory, and his wife, Hedwig Lewenstein Weyermann.
From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2023
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
When Leonardo is an apprentice, painters in Italy use tempera: water plus color plus egg yolk.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Vocabulary lists containing tempera
Visual Arts - High School
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Visual Arts - Middle School
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