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Definition of Temperas

Tempera
Tempera Tem"pe*ra, n. [It.] (Paint.) A mode or process of painting; distemper.
Tempera
Tempera Tem"pe*ra, n. [It.] (Paint.) A mode or process of painting; distemper. Note: The term is applied especially to early Italian painting, common vehicles of which were yolk of egg, yolk and white of egg mixed together, the white juice of the fig tree, and the like.

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- Tempera (Italian: [ˈtɛmpera]), also known as egg tempera, is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of pigments mixed with a water-soluble...
- Tempera is a painting medium. Tempera may also refer to: MT Tempera, a Finnish oil tanker Tempera (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse Vince Tempera...
- Vince Tempera (born 18 September 1946) is an Italian musician, composer, arranger, record producer and conductor. Born in Milan as Vincenzo Tempera, he...
- Tempera was founded in 1901 by Christiana Herringham (1852–1929) and a group of British painters who were interested in reviving the art of tempera painting...
- replaced the use of egg tempera paints for panel paintings in most of Europe, though not for Orthodox icons or wall paintings, where tempera and fresco, respectively...
- paintings which seem to be of the highest contemporary quality. Encaustic and tempera are the two techniques used in antiquity. Encaustic largely ceased to be...
- with a dilute pigment of red ochre (a form of iron oxide) in a collagen tempera (i.e., gelatin) medium, using a technique similar to the grisaille emplo****...
- of the best-known American paintings of the mid-20th century. It is a tempera work done in a realist style, depicting a woman in an inclined position...
- revisions, it is painted with materials that allowed for regular alterations: tempera on gesso, pitch, and mastic. Due to the methods used, a variety of environmental...
- painted in egg tempera and embellished with gold leaf. Differently from his contemporaries and artists before him, Duccio was a master of tempera and managed...