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 ...

Get an insight into this unique pre-Renaissance painting technique that uses egg yolk to create paint Dubai: American mural artist Alina Gallo is introducing Egg Tempera, a medieval painting technique ...

What would Easter be without the decorated egg? Powder blue, rose pink, and daffodil-yellow ovals have become synonymous with the springtime holiday, and painting or dyeing the white canvas of egg ...

Art historians have known for some time that Old Masters such as Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli mixed egg yolks into their oil paints. Now, scientists may have discovered the reason why. An ...

So, how do you like your eggs? The Michener Museum in Doylestown has served up an exhibition of paintings using egg tempera, an ancient technique that uses an egg yolk as a binder. “Mavis Smith: ...

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 ...

A team of chemical engineers affiliated with several institutions in Europe has determined why Old Masters of the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries added egg yolk to their oil-based paints. In ...

Along with creating some of the most beautiful and famous works of art in Western history, the “Old Masters” such as Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio, and Sandro Botticelli also have another thing in ...