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Definition of Tempera
1. Noun. Pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk.
Definition of Tempera
1. n. A mode or process of painting; distemper.
2. n. A mode or process of painting; distemper.
Definition of Tempera
1. Noun. A medium used to bind pigments in painting, as well as the associated artistic techniques. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tempera
1. a technique of painting [n -S]
Medical Definition of Tempera
1. A mode or process of painting; distemper. 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. Origin: It. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tempera
Literary usage of Tempera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Most commonly, however, in England as in France and Germany the whole painting
was done in tempera, the finished surface of the plaster being first covered ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"The contrary is no doubt t he case with the tempera " Madonna with the Violet
... The fact is that tempera panels were usually coated with an oil varnish, ..."
3. The Graphic Arts: A Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing, Painting, and by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1891)
"tempera. A GREAT practical hindrance to the general knowledge of tempera is, that
paintings so executed are often varnished, and then they look like ..."
4. Vasari on Technique: Being the Introduction to the Three Arts of Design by Giorgio Vasari (1907)
"Of Painting in tempera,1 or with egg, on Panel or Canvas, and how it is employed
on the wall which is dry. § 82. Painting in tempera. ..."
5. The Book of the Art of Cennino Cennini: A Contemporary Practical Treatise on by Cennino Cennini, Christiana Jane Powell Herringham (1899)
"Later writers write only much later when it was superseded by oil. Vasari uses
the word "tempera" as equivalent to yolk of egg; ..."
6. The Book of the Art of Cennino Cennini: A Contemporary Practical Treatise on by Cennino Cennini, Christiana Jane Powell Herringham (1899)
"Later writers write only much later when it was superseded by oil. Vasari uses
the word " tempera" as equivalent to yolk of egg; ..."
7. The Fine Arts by Gerard Baldwin Brown (1901)
"The introduction of Oil-Painting and the 'tempera Style. ... Strictly speaking
oil-painting is a form of painting 'a tempera,' ie ' with a mixture,' for the ..."
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