Before oil paints rose to popularity during the Renaissance, tempera paint was favored among many of the world's cultures. Also called egg tempera, this yolk-based paint was used to design murals in ...
PAPERS. The paragone between oil and tempera painting in the 19th and 20th centuries / Matthias Krüger ; The tempera revival 1800-1950: historical background, methods of investigation and the question ...
Oil paints freed artists like Jan van Eyck, Raphael, and Leonardo to raise the bar. Around 1500, painters in Flanders mastered the use of oil-based paints rather than the standard of the day tempera ...
In his 1550 volume Lives of the Artists, painter and architect Giorgio Vasari snuck in praise for the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck in his chapter on the Italian painter Antonello da Messina. Vasari ...