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The 32 pages that link to Tempera, each with the reason it gives.

• Oil paintingCompared with: Tempera preceded oil’s dominance and dries faster, limiting extended blending.

• Byzantine artRelated: Egg tempera was widely used for panel icons and manuscript painting.

• IconRelated: Egg tempera is a traditional medium for painting icons on wooden panels.

• Illuminated manuscriptRelated: Tempera gave illuminators a durable medium for precise colors and details.

• Ajanta CavesRelated: Binders helped pigments adhere to the plastered cave walls.

• Acrylic paintCompared with: Tempera uses a different binder and generally produces a less flexible film than acrylic paint.

• Sandro BotticelliRelated: Botticelli used tempera for many panel paintings, including Primavera.

• GouacheCompared with: Tempera can also create matte, opaque images, but its traditional binder differs from gouache’s.

• Manuscript illuminationRelated: It allowed illuminators to apply opaque, controlled layers of color.

• The Birth of VenusNarrower topic: Botticelli used tempera to create the painting’s finely controlled surface.

• Watercolor paintingCompared with: Tempera typically produces more opaque, controlled marks than watercolor.

• Oil paintCompared with: Tempera dries quickly, unlike the slower-working oil paint that increasingly supplanted it.

• UltramarineRelated: Ultramarine was used in tempera as well as in later oil painting.

• GessoRelated: Gesso grounds were standard under tempera in medieval and Renaissance panel painting.

• Flemish paintingCompared with: Its faster drying and more matte surface contrast with the oil methods Flemish painters developed.

• Panel paintingRelated: Egg tempera was a common medium for European panel painting.

• Giovanni BelliniCompared with: Bellini’s adoption of oil allowed effects unavailable in the faster-drying tempera he inherited.

• Sienese schoolRelated: It was a standard medium for the panel paintings that define much of Sienese output.

• DuccioRelated: Tempera allowed Duccio to build precise details and clear, saturated colors.

• Fra AngelicoRelated: His panel paintings often used tempera for precise detail and luminous color.

• Andrea del VerrocchioRelated: Tempera was among the painting techniques used in Verrocchio’s Florentine workshop.

• Simone MartiniRelated: Tempera enabled the crisp lines and carefully layered color of Martini’s panel paintings.

• Antonello da MessinaCompared with: Its quicker, more opaque handling contrasts with the blending and glazing possible in oil.

• Cretan SchoolRelated: Tempera was a common medium for the school’s panel paintings.

• Charles DemuthRelated: His work in tempera shows another route to the clean, controlled surfaces associated with his art.

• Christina’s WorldNarrower topic: Wyeth used tempera to make the painting’s fine, controlled surfaces.

• Cusco SchoolRelated: Tempera was among the techniques used in colonial Andean painting.

• Gentile da FabrianoRelated: Tempera enabled the precise modeling and crisp detail in many of his panel paintings.

• Matryoshka dollRelated: Traditional painters used tempera to decorate wooden doll surfaces.

• Stroganov schoolRelated: Tempera enabled the precise lines and delicate color characteristic of Stroganov icons.

• History of paintingRelated: It dominated panel painting in Europe before oil techniques prevailed.

• Novgorod schoolRelated: Egg tempera was a principal medium for the school’s wooden-panel icons.