tempera
Egg-bound pigment
Tempera is a painting technique using pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder, traditionally egg yolk.
It dries quickly to a matte finish and was the dominant medium for panel painting before oils became standard in the Renaissance.
The term also refers to paintings made this way: a medieval tempera on wood.
Modern tempera paints, as in children's art supplies, use different binders but share the name.
Color-imparting material
- binderDevice securing loose pages
- emulsionBlended immiscible liquids
- yolkEgg's nutrient core
- albumenClear protein in eggs
gesso · vellum · panel · egg · water · vinegar · sizing · ground
Wet plaster painting technique
- gessoAbsorbent primer for canvases
- underpaintingPreliminary painted foundation
- glazingGlossy protective coating
- sgraffitoScratch-revealed layered decoration
chiaroscuro · impasto · brushwork · layering · hatching · blending · wash · gilding
European cultural reawakening
- ByzantineOf Constantinople's civilization
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- GiottoTrecento Florentine painter
- quattrocentoItalian fifteenth century
altarpiece · iconography · monastic · Botticelli · polyptych · devotional · sacred · workshop
pigment
Color-imparting material
albumen · gesso · vellum · panel · egg · water · vinegar · sizing · ground · support
fresco
Wet plaster painting technique
- gessoAbsorbent primer for canvases
- underpaintingPreliminary painted foundation
- glazingGlossy protective coating
sgraffito · chiaroscuro · impasto · brushwork · layering · hatching · blending · wash · gilding · burnishing
Renaissance
European cultural reawakening
- ByzantineOf Constantinople's civilization
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- GiottoTrecento Florentine painter
quattrocento · altarpiece · iconography · monastic · Botticelli · polyptych · devotional · sacred · workshop · guild
matte
Non-reflective surface finish
archival · brittle · thin · precise · vivid · saturated · flat · crisp · smooth · delicate
- coatingspaint, enamel, varnish, primer, glaze
- artfine art, Renaissance, painters, masterpieces, paint
- art formspainting, drawing, sculpture, photography, music
- artepintura, oleo, sketch, croquis, gouache
- fine artsfine art, fine arts, painting, visual arts, sculpture
- art suppliesbrush, paints, pencil, easel, eraser
temperaoil paint
Pigment bound with linseed
oils · oil-based paint · encaustic · acrylic paint · alkyd
- lose your temperAbruptly give into anger
- room temperatureStandard indoor thermal level
- lose my temperBecome suddenly angry
- temper tantrumExplosive emotional outburst
- lose one's temperReact with sudden anger
- short temperProneness to sudden anger
temper, temperature, temperament, tempered, temperamental, temperance, tempering, distemper, temperamentally