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Meanings of tempera in English
Pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk.
Painting medium consisting of colored pigment mixed with a water-soluble binder medium.
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Examples for "distemper"
Examples for "distemper"
1
Expensive watches would only be the first victims of our dwarf's distemper.
2
This malignant distemper had destroyed numbers of prisoners during the preceding years.
3
In weak minds, it is a chronic distemper, followed by incurable indolence.
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Forgetting my distemper, I grabbed my cap and joined the expectant throngs.
5
At present it must be considered is a distemper not well understood.
Usage of tempera in English
1
This, Botticelli translates into exquisite tempera with a wealth of pretty thoughts.
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Even Willy made one out of doll's heads painted blue with tempera paint.
3
This painting, executed in 1315, was considered meritorious for a work done in tempera.
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One work was egg tempera on a gesso foundation, the other a dry-brush watercolor.
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Finally, tempera pictures and frescoes were often of limited size or of feeble color.
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Spilled purple tempera paint on it in art class.
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Graham filled a nail polish bottle with white tempera paint and took it to work.
8
This tempera-on-wood painting is in Pollok House, Glasgow.
9
The colors were those I remembered from the tempera paints of my lower school art classes.
10
This tempera-on-poplar panel reveals much about Michelangelo's decision-making.
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I say of my beautiful crown roast, like a kindergartener presenting a prized tempera paint masterpiece.
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But there is another medium that seems as if it was made for him: egg tempera.
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In patches of tempera, he laid out the bright fluidity, the orange-specked liveliness, the green serenity.
14
It consists of a small number of stainless steel sculptures and many small-scale tempera on gesso paintings.
15
These pictures are executed principally by the encaustic process, though some use was made also of tempera.
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Except that it was executed in tempera instead of oil, it differed in no respect from modern work.
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Tempera through the time