Tempera Grassa (fat egg tempera emulsion): recipes, uses and historical background of a medium used by Old Masters during the Renaissance.

Jun 3, 2024 · Tempera grassa is made by introducing oil into the traditional egg tempera mixture, creating a medium that combines the qualities of both egg tempera and oil paint. To make …

Jul 26, 2023 · Researchers studied mixtures of oil and tempera paint, known as tempera grassa, to better understand how historic paint formulas would affect the appearance of finished …

However, it was in the second half of the Fifteenth Century that this practice began to become no longer casual but programmatic, so much so as to define a set of rules of a specific technique, …

With the use of new techniques: emulsified egg oil (tempera grassa) and also a succession of tempera and oil coatings (mixed media), Bellini ...

Tempera Painting was the main medium used during the Early Renaissance for smaller scale paintings on wooden panels. Any pigment which is tempered with a water soluble binder such …

Before oil paint was adopted as the principal technique for easel painting, Leonardo da Vinci was one of the first artists to use a combination of tempera and oil, called “tempera grassa”; to try …

Tubed "egg tempera" is actually "tempera grassa", an emulsion of egg yolk and a drying oil (generally with other additives such as preservatives and stabilizers). Tempera grassa has …

Recent analyses made by the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence on a number of works by Sandro Botticelli identify him as one of the main artists using the “tempera grassa” technique. …

Jan 11, 2021 · In this video I try a recipe well used and known by the old Masters where I Mix one part of egg yolk with one part of linseed oil, one part of water and some vinegar, and I wave …