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Rebirth: Changing to oils

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At the start of the 15th century, Italian easel paintings used egg tempera. By the end, Leonardo da Vinci was pushing the technical boundaries using oil paint.

March 18, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Marianne Stokes: Madonna and Child

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Having painted in Realist, Naturalist and Impressionist styles, from about 1893 she settled with the Pre-Raphaelite, even making egg tempera her main medium.

October 15, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Work in Progress: The Wilton Diptych

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Painted on two panels of oak using egg tempera, it combines gold and raised details to mimic precious stones. How it was made.

July 25, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Medium Well Done: 4 Egg Tempera

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In the Renaissance, while oil painting was still catching on, many of the greatest masterpieces were painted in egg tempera. How, and to what effect?

April 10, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Leonardo the Apprentice: Verrocchio and his Studio

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Over 550 years ago, a 14 year-old boy started his apprenticeship with the Florentine painter and sculptor Verrocchio. He was Leonardo da Vinci, and here are some of his master’s works.

March 16, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Tyger’s eye: the paintings of William Blake, 8 – Last tempera paintings

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Job being smitten by boils, a Count left to starve to death, the ghost of a flea, and one of Blake’s most complex and enigmatic paintings: true genius.

December 4, 2016 General, Painting

Tyger’s eye: the paintings of William Blake, 7 – Tempera paintings 1800-1810

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A famous British Admiral, a former Prime Minister, Chaucer and his Canterbury pilgrims, and the last bard alive – all subjects for these remarkable paintings.

December 1, 2016 General, Painting

Tyger’s eye: the paintings of William Blake, 6 – Tempera paintings, 1799-1800

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Fifty paintings of scenes from the Bible: they could easily have been so bland. Not for Blake, though, whose genius shines through.

November 28, 2016 General, Painting

Into the Light: Marianne Stokes, a major woman artist

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Rural naturalist, Impressionist, and Pre-Raphaelite styles in portraits, landscapes, genre, and religious paintings: that is versatility.

May 5, 2016 General, Painting

Favourite Paintings 12: Anonymous, Funerary Portrait of a Woman (‘The European’), c 80 – 200 CE

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A hauntingly beautiful portrait of a young adult woman lost in quiet thought, made to fit on her mummy. Was she contemplating her eventual death?

March 13, 2015 Painting
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