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Tempera was invented in Ancient Egypt. This type of paint was employed for painting temples, reliefs, papyrus and tombs. Tempera was appropriated by the Greeks and Romans and was utilised until the Late Middle Ages. Sometimes tempera was used to paint the walls of an entire temple or church.
Tempera is crafted by grinding material into powdered pigments, which is subsequently mixed with egg yolk and water. Tempera is difficult to make, and consequently oil paint became quickly popular around the Renaissance period.
The tempera in this set is well-suited to painting busts and reliefs. The set contains 17 different colours in tubes of 7 grams.
Some pigments used for historical tempera were deadly dangerous. Heavy metals were used; people utilised arsenic for making yellow and lead white for white. During the Early Middle Ages, illuminations were made by monks, who must have been aware that certain colours deteriorated their health. Nowadays tempera is completely safe and pigments of that nature are no longer sold (even for art historical research).
