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

Once the primer dried, she painted over it with metallic silver tempera paint.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2022

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

Most of what I do is drawing, because the preparation of the surface, the laborious underpainting and detailed concentration of egg tempera are too much for me.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood