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| A plastic resin that, when mixed with water and pigment, forms an inorganic and quick-drying paint medium. |
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| In a medium, the substance that holds pigments together. |
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| A method of painting with molten beeswax fused to the support after application by means of heat. |
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| Painting on plaster, either dry (fresco secco) or wet (buon or true fresco). In the former the paint is an independent layer, separate from the plaster proper, in the latter, the paint is chemically bound to the plaster, and is integral to the wall of support. |
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| In early fifteenth century, a figure known as La Pittura – literally, “the picture” began to appear in Italian art. |
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| The coloring agents of a medium. |
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| A painting medium made by combining water, pigment and usually egg yolk. |
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| A form of representation that attempts to depict the object as if it were actually present before the eye in three-dimensional space, literally “eye fooling.” |
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| solvent – A thinner that enables paint to flow more readily and that clean brushes, also called vehicle |
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