Tempera
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Tempera is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder medium, usually glutinous material such as egg yolk. There are several types of tempera pai
Crevole Madonna by Duccio, tempera with gold ground on wood, 1284, Siena
A 1367 tempera on wood by Niccolò Semitecolo
Ancient Egyptian wall painting with tempera on intonaco made with clay and straw, representing offering bearers and a sacrifice scene. From the Tomb of Iti and Neferu, Gebelein, between 2118 and 1980 BC (First Intermediate Period of Egypt). Museo Egizio, Turin (S. 14354/12).
Pietro Lorenzetti's Tarlati polyptych, Tempera and gold on panel, 1320
Distemper (paint)
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Distemper is a decorative paint and a historical medium for painting pictures, and contrasted with tempera. The binder may be glues of vegetable or animal origin. Soft distemper is not abrasion resist
Tempera
…egg tempera. Tempera paint made from milk protein is called casein paint. If the binder is synthetic PVA, the result is polyvinyl acetate tempera. A distemper paint consisting of pigment and binders such as cornstarch, gum arabic and other gums is called poster paint in certain parts of the world, and it is…
Dirk Bouts' Entombment, distemper on linen, 1450s
Distemper being used to paint a room, 1939-1945
19th-century Mongolian thanka in distemper
The distemper winter camouflage paint on this Soviet MiG-3 fighter aeroplane shows severe erosion due to weathering.