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tempera

[tem-per-uh] / ˈtɛm pər ə /


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For those, however, who take their painting with a dash of the occult, the tempera panels of Bu Shi at Sarahcrown will delight.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 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

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

At the Farnsworth, an exhibition focusing on four of Wyeth’s first tempera paintings created from 1937 to 1939, alongside multiple studies, underscores a turning point in his career.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 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




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