Tempera

Anonymous Artist working in Ferrara
St George and the Dragon
ca. 1510
tempera on panel (predella fragment)
Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara

Ben Shahn
Portrait of Myself when Young
1943
tempera on board
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Biagio d'Antonio
Portrait of a Young Man
ca. 1470
tempera on panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Fra Angelico
The Entombment
ca. 1438-40
tempera on panel
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Robert Remsen Vickrey
Fear
1954
tempera on board
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Giovanni di Paolo
Adoration of the Magi
ca. 1442
tempera on panel
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Domenico Beccafumi
Self Portrait
ca. 1528-29
tempera on paper, mounted on panel
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Bicci di Lorenzo
St Nicholas of Bari banishing the Storm
ca. 1433-35
tempera on panel
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

George Tooker
Homecoming
1949
tempera on panel
Addison Gallery of American Art
Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts

Bartolomeo degli Erri
St Dominic reviving Napoleone Orsini from Death
ca. 1467-74
tempera on panel, transferred to canvas (predella fragment)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Alberto Savinio
Orpheus and Eurydice
1951
tempera on board
Galleria d'Arte Moderna (Uffizi), Florence

Antonio Pollaiuolo
Hercules and Antaeus
ca. 1470-75
tempera on panel
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Giotto and workshop
The Crucifixion
ca. 1328-32
tempera on panel
Musée du Louvre

George Tooker
Government Bureau
1956
tempera on panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Anonymous French Artist
Martyrdom of Saints Cosmas and Damian
ca. 1480-1500
tempera on panel
Brooklyn Museum

David Park
Boston Common
1935
tempera on canvas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

George Tooker
Dance
1946
tempera on panel
private collection

from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

Faun's flesh is not to us,

Nor the saint's vision.

We have the Press for wafer;

Franchise for circumcision.

All men, in law, are equals.

Free of Pisistratus,

We choose a knave or an eunuch

To rule over us.

– Ezra Pound (1920)