Just put up a brief history of egg tempera on my blog

[Alessandra Kelley]

Ars Ex Ovo: a quick, subjective history of egg tempera

[Mayberry]

Thanks for posting that. I don't know much about the use of egg tempera after the time of Botticelli. I know I learned about "The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti" in college, but I totally forgot (or never learned) that it was painted in egg tempera. Until very recently, I didn't know that people were still making traditional religious icons. I feel like I'm beginning to "get" art history better the more I actually paint.

[Alessandra Kelley]

"The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti" was a major image in one of my history texts, and they never even mentioned what it was made of. Sigh. I do not care for the extreme disjunct between art imagery and art-the-object. Art as image divorces historians from the reality of what things were made and how they were made. I'm glad you're getting a better sense of art history, Mayberry.

I think all art historians should have practical experience in the arts; perhaps then they would understand art history better.