"Cennini" Egg Tempera Tubes and Tempera Grassa Emulsion "Maestri Fiorentini"

It is the traditional egg tempera, the same as used by Tuscan artists of the ‘300 and ‘400. Being reversible, is also suitable for painting restoration. Best supports are: gesso ground panels or linens, or heavy watercolor paper. Dilution: water. Names of colors are the same mentioned in the “Craftsman handbook” written by the artist Cennino Cennini in the fourteenth century. These color paints, added to Tempera Grassa "Maestri Fiorentini" Emulsion, can reach a technique near to oil paint but with dilution of water