Tempera

Domenico di Zanobi
Madonna del Soccorso
ca. 1485
tempera on panel
Basilica di Santo Spirito, Florence

Baldo Sarofini
Madonna della Misericordia
ca. 1500
tempera on panel
Pinacoteca Civica, Civitanova Alta

Bernardo Daddi
Stoning of St Stephen
1337-38
tempera on panel (predella fragment)
Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome

Ercole de' Roberti
Wife of Hasdrubal and her Children
ca. 1490-93
tempera on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Fra Angelico and Alesso Baldovinetti
Mystic Wheel with the Vision of Ezekiel
ca. 1450-52
tempera on panel
Museo Nazionale di San Marco, Florence

Bartolomeo della Gatta
The Annunciation
ca. 1480
tempera on panel
Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon

Bartolomeo Caporali
The Annunciation
ca. 1460-65
tempera on panel
Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon

Giovanni dal Ponte
The Annunciation
ca. 1420-25
tempera on panel (altarpiece fragments)
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Francesco Pagano
St Sebastian and St Agatha
ca. 1480
tempera on panel
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

attributed to Martino da Verona
Consecration of St Eligius
before 1410
tempera on panel
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Sandro Botticelli
Three Miracles of St Zenobius
1500-1510
tempera on panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Andrea Mantegna
Holy Family with young St John the Baptist
ca. 1490-1500
tempera on panel
National Gallery, London

Carlo Crivelli
Virgin and Child
ca. 1480-83
tempera on panel
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

Cosimo Rosselli
Virgin and Child in Glory with St Ambrose and St Francis
ca. 1498-1501
tempera on panel (altarpiece)
Chiesa di Sant'Ambrogio, Florence

Cima da Conegliano
The Crucifixion
ca. 1488-93
tempera on panel
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, West Midlands

Marco Zoppo
Man of Sorrows
before 1478
tempera on panel
private collection

Cosmè Tura
St John the Evangelist on Patmos
ca. 1470-75
tempera on panel
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

You talk to your admirers every day

By silted harbors, derelict works,

In strangled orchards, and the silent comb

Where dogs have worried or a bird was shot.

Order the ill that they attack at once:

Visit the ports and, interrupting

The leisurely conversation in the bar

Within a stone's throw of the sunlit water,

Beckon your chosen out. Summon

Those handsome and diseased youngsters, those women

Your solitary agents in the country parishes;

And mobilise the powerful forces latent

In soils that make the farmer brutal

In the infected sinus, and the eyes of stoats. 

Then, ready, start your rumour, soft

But horrifying in its capacity to disgust

Which, spreading magnified, shall come to be 

A polar peril, a prodigious alarm,

Scattering the people, as torn-up paper

Rags and utensils in a sudden gust,

Seized with immeasurable neurotic dread.

– W.H. Auden (1930)