Tempera, also known as egg tempera, is a permanent fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigment mixed with a water-soluble binder medium ( usually a glutinous material such as egg yolk or some other size ).

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 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 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.

While painting landscapes in the Dover area, Nielsen came into contact with The Society of Tempera Painters where he learned new skills, and was able to reduce the time involved in the painting process.

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 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 ).

He is a member of The Society of Tempera Painters and runs courses teaching these traditional techniques.

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 paint dries rapidly.

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.

And the life they lead is undisciplined and for the most part unproductive, even though they make a fetish of devoting themselves to some creative pursuit -- writing, painting, music.

I would like to straighten out a misconception about the dress Mrs. Coolidge is wearing in this painting.

The dress in the painting is a bright red, with rhinestones forming a spray on the right side.

That is why our creative people give their time to literature, not to painting or sculpture ''.

Just because a tree or other object appears in a certain spot is absolutely no reason to place it in the same position in the painting, unless the position serves the design of the whole composition.

`` Speed in painting a picture is valid only when it imparts spontaneity and crispness, but unless the artist has lots of experience so that he can control rapid execution, he would do well to take these first sketches and soberly reorder their design to achieve a unified composition.

When painting, Mason's physical eyes are half-closed, while his mind's eye is wide open, and this circumstance accounts in part for the impression he wishes to convey.

In we're painting at our garage strong stress on at indicates that the job being done is not real painting but simply an effort at painting.

Once again what has happened is an all-consuming confabulation of the incidentals, the accidents of painting.

It is curious that at its best, the work of this school of painting -- Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Willem De-Kooning, and the rest -- resembles nothing so much as the passage painting of quite unimpressive painters: the mother-of-pearl shimmer in the background of a Henry McFee, itself a formula derived from Renoir ; ;

You have only to compare such painting with the work of, say, Sesshu, to realize that someone is using words and brushes carelessly.

A Tiepolo painting, however confabulated, is a universe of tensions in vast depths.

Writing in a large volume on the nude in painting and sculptures, titled The Nude: A Study In Ideal Form, Kenneth Clark declares: `` The human body, as a nucleus, is rich in associations.

The `` projection '' time of painting and sculpture is highly subjective, varying from person to person and even varying for a given person on different occasions.

James, he remarks in a letter to a friend, `` is attempting the impossible namely, to produce upon the reader, as a painting produces upon the gazer, a number of superimposed, simultaneous impressions.

The play's device is to explore society's obsession with disaster and violence through the eyes of a group of artist's models who remain part of someone else's painting rather than just be themselves.

We hold safe little jobs illustrating tooth-paste ads or the salacious incidents in trivial novels, and most of our easel painting is nothing but picking the fluff out of the navel so it can be contemplated in greater purity.

Art is a term that describes a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, but here refers to the visual arts, which cover the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.

Architecture is often included as one of the visual arts ; however, like the decorative arts, it creates objects where the practical considerations of use are essential — in a way that they are usually not for a painting, for example.

The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US $ 100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises.

Versailles found its stately mirror in the powerful idea of classicism – a painting style, enduring in later artists like Ingres, whose austerity and grandeur express the authority of a world where Jove is very much in his throne.

* 2006 – Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.