Tempera adheres best to an absorbent ground that has a lower " oil " content than the tempera binder used ( the traditional rule of thumb is " fat over lean ", and never the other way around ).

Tempera painting is one of the oldest known methods in mural painting.

Tempera also refers to the paintings done in this medium.

Tempera paintings are very long lasting, and examples from the 1st centuries AD still exist.

Tempera painting has been found on early Egyptians sarcophagi decorations.

Tempera painting was the primary panel painting medium for nearly every painter in the European Medieval and Early renaissance period up to 1500.

Tempera painting continues to be used in Greece and Russia where it is the required medium for Orthodox icons.

Tempera is traditionally created by hand-grinding dry powdered pigments into a binding agent or medium, such as egg, glue, honey, water, milk ( in the form of casein ) and a variety of plant gums.

Tempera painting starts with placing a small amount of the pigment paste onto a palette, dish or bowl and adding about an equal volume of the binder and mixing.

Tempera paint dries rapidly.

Tempera painting allows for great precision when used with traditional techniques that require the application of numerous small brush strokes applied in a cross-hatching technique.

Image: Madonna71. jpg | Guido da Siena, Church of San Regolo, Siena, Tempera and gold on panel, 1285-1295

File: Duccio. The-Madonna-and-Child-with-Saints-149. jpg | Madonna and Child with saints polyptych, Duccio, Tempera and gold on wood, 1311 – 1318

File: Virgin and child with four saints -- detail -- cortona 1435. jpg | Madonna by Sassetta, Cortona, Tempera on wood, 1435

File: Botticelli-madonna 03. jpg | Sandro Botticelli, Tempera on panel, 1490 – 1500

File: Carlo Crivelli-Madonna con Bambino. jpg | Crivelli, Tempera on wood, transferred to canvas, 1470

File: Raffael 006. jpg | Raphael, Tempera and gold on wood, 1503 – 1505

File: Marianne Stokes Melisande. jpg | Marianne Stokes, Melisande ( Stokes ), Tempera on canvas, 1895 – 1898

File: Angélique Bègue Odalisque. jpg | Angélique Bègue, Odalisque, Tempera and gold on wood, 2012

* Altoon Sultan, The Luminous Brush: Painting With Egg Tempera, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York 1999.

The Practice of Tempera Painting: Materials and Methods, Dover Publications, Inc. 1962 ..

Annunciation ( 1447 ) Tempera on wood, 167 x 137 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

As Visual Cultures professor Lynn Turner notes, this scene anticipates by a parallel scene in which Craig using deceit to seduce Maxine through Malkovich .. Mariangela Tempera has noted that the subservience of Lady Anne in the scene contrasts with the self-assertiveness of the actress playing Lady Anne as she seduces Malkovich offstage.

Allegory of Music ( c. 1500 ) Tempera on panel, 61 × 51 cm.

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