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Grammar : Noun |
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Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɛm pər ə |
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Définition of tempera
Origin :- 1832, from Italian tempera (in phrase pingere a tempera), from temperare "to mix colors, temper," from Latin temperare "to mix" (see temper (v.)).
- As in paint : noun tinted covering
- The colours Pg 175 are known in the trade as tempera colours.
- Extract from : « Three Hundred Things a Bright Boy Can Do » by Anonymous
- When not painting fresco he is constant to the use of tempera.
- Extract from : « Pintoricchio » by Evelyn March Phillipps
- First there are the tempera pictures, or “frescoes,” as he termed them.
- Extract from : « William Blake » by Irene Langridge
- “Bianca” was painted in tempera from a beautiful young American.
- Extract from : « Holman Hunt » by Mary E. Coleridge
- He painted in tempera and finished his work with care and deliberation.
- Extract from : « Artists Past and Present » by Elisabeth Luther Cary
- Will you kindly advise me on the tempera, of which I send a tube?
- Extract from : « The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton » by Mrs. Russell Barrington
- He displayed an old-fashioned preference for painting in tempera.
- Extract from : « The Old Masters and Their Pictures » by Sarah Tytler
- The tempera picture from which it was engraved was bought by Mr. Butts, but has been lost sight of now for many years.
- Extract from : « William Blake » by Irene Langridge
- Its general tone is bluish green with mosaic walls and floor and a wooden ceiling decorated in tempera with cufic inscriptions.
- Extract from : « The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration » by Various
- In tempera painting the colours were mixed with egg, gum, and other vehicles dissolved in water, and laid upon a dry ground.
- Extract from : « Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 » by John Addington Symonds
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