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

Painted with egg tempera on calfskin parchment, they show close-ups of agricultural machinery in near primary colors.

From New York Times • May 5, 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