modern renaissance citizen should be devoted to God, and the state. A new culture was being created. The new emphasis on the Catholic church raised a great deal of enthusiasm of the Italian people. A new development of civic life started to form. The art reflected how the culture viewed the Catholic church and the importance that was put on Jesus Christ, and Christianity as a whole. God was now part of not only daily life, but government, and society as a whole. Now from the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome the face of the city and culture literally changed. Art and architecture coincided with God and Government. Spiritual interests were part of every day life the same way taxes and laws were.
             An early renaissance painting technique and media was Tempera painting. Tempera is a method of painting in which the pigment is carried in a solution of egg, casein gum, or glycerin and water. The process of painting in tempera is the oldest method of painting known. The Mycenaean period paintings in Greece were done in tempera. During the renaissance, Italian painters ground their colors by hand and mixed the powdered colors with a medium. Most pigments were owned by the artist but on occasion the pigments were supplied by the painters client. The process of making the pigments useful to paint with varied. For instance Vermilion was usually bought in a lump and pulverized into color. But others such as Ultramarine had to be put through a complex process to extract the desired colors. Colors such as Florence and Siena were also available to 14th century artists. In the artists workshop, pigments would have had to been ground on a hard stone slab. The muller, a tool for grinding pigments was used. After the pigments were ground down water was added. Then the paint was scrapped off ready for use. Every color needed a different amount of grinding, so it was a skilled task to create tempera paints. Some colors such as blue and green ...