what's tempera

Tempera means the technique of the pictures drawn using the paints which generally kneaded and made paints from the egg, and these paints. The origin of a word originated in Temperare of Latin of the meaning of "mixing" originally, and was used in medieval times as general term of paints which mixed animal glue and a vegetable adhesion thing. Although the technique using an egg itself existed from the time before Greece and Rome, it occupied the main portions of pictures technology as a part of medieval ornament, altar drawing (board with a drawing) which lasts to a Renaissance term from an end medieval times, or mural painting. Many of important works by maestros, such as Lippi, Angelico, and Botticelli, are based on tempera. the bright color tone which did not change even if it built the strong waterproof screen and the color left in what year, when the feature was dried, but employed the brightness of a snow-white gypsum ground efficiently, and the clear color plane in a pure color -- it is contrast.

From the middle of the 15th century, the combined use technique of oil painting and tempera was used in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy till the beginning of the 16th century as the spread of oil paintings progressed. The technique document "the writing of art" was discovered and published, the researcher which got interested in classic technology based on this, and the painter repeated the supplementary examination aiming at revival of the lost technology, and that the technology of tempera revives restored technology which is known today about the middle of the 19th century.

This technique drawn most briskly [ the north Renaissance ] is charm with big that screen by which it was closed smoothly and firmly and glossy matiere as which a deep transparent color tone and a hand are not regarded. By light-and-darkness expression repeated about ten times, the gradation which shines transparently [ the textures of velvet and a peculiar color ] is produced. The combination of the matiere of the oil painting piled up by transparent thin coating on the brightness of the chalk ground with tempera paints is the technique which reached to an extreme of an oil-painting implement, and the brightness is not lost even if it passes through the time.