#tempera
Judith Beheading Holofernes and Judah Maccabee from The Rothschild Miscellany, Unidentified scribe, Veneto, Northern Italy, c. 1460-80,
Handwritten on vellum; brown ink, tempera, gold and silver leaf; square and semi-cursive Ashkenazic script, 21 x 15.9 cm.
Gift of James A. de Rothschild, The Israel museum, Jerusalem.
Saint Anne from Faras Cathedral, Lower Nubian (contemporary Sudan) medieval kingdom of Makuria (=old Nubia), c. 8th-9th century, tempera on mud dry plaster (Secco), 69 x 68,5 cm, the National Museum, Warsaw.
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Dura Europos synagogue,C. 244AD,
(in contemporary syria), Tempera over plaster.
In order:
-The Torah Niche on the west wall of Dura Europos Synagogue,
-Pharaoh ordering the Midwives to kill all male Hebrew babies and Moses is found by Pharaoh’s Daughter.
*Detail of Pharaoh’s Daughter and Moses
-Exodus: The Israelites leaving Egypt, Moses dividing the waters
*Detail of the left side
Happy Passover!
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Charles Sheeler (American, 1883–1965), The Great Tree, 1956 , Tempera, 11.4 x 16.5 cm
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Piero di Cosimo (Italian, 1462-1522), Santa Maria Maddalena, 1490-1495. Tempera on board, 72 x 53 cm; Palazzo Barberini, Rome
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