For thousands of years, artists have used a surprising ingredient in their paints: egg yolk. This type of paint, called egg tempera, has been found in ancient Egyptian mummy portraits, medieval ...

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 ...

Tempera is a painting medium that has been used to decorate everything from early Egyptian sarcophagi to India's rock-cut temples. The medium was particularly popular with medieval and early ...

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Walk through any major art museum’s historical galleries and you’ll likely encounter paintings created with egg tempera, particularly among Christian icons and medieval masterpieces. This ancient ...

How the pioneering Filipina modernist Anita Magsaysay-Ho mastered egg tempera to paint the women who would define her legacy Walk through any major art museum’s historical galleries and you’ll likely ...