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This page groups artworks by the physical material they were made in. Wikipedia notes that "icons are most commonly painted on wood panels with egg tempera, but they may also be cast in metal or carved in stone or embroidered on cloth or done in mosaic or fresco work." Browsing by medium lets a visitor find every artwork made in the same material.

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Encaustic (beeswax) and tempera on sycamore fig wood

Engraving, Abner Reed, 1808, Art Institute of Chicago

Engraving, Michel van Lochom, 1611 to 1647, Rijksmuseum

Engraving, Pieter Serwouters, 1626, Rijksmuseum

Engraving, Rijksmuseum

Engraving, Rijksmuseum, series of archangels

Engraving, Rijksmuseum, series of twelve archangels

Etching, Jan Luyken, 1683, Rijksmuseum

Fresco

Fresco (buon fresco, pigment applied to wet plaster)

Fresco, ceiling

Ge'ez text on vellum, with tempera and gold illumination

Glazed terracotta

Gold coin, circa 340 to 400, British Museum

Icon

Illuminated manuscript in Syriac and Armenian

Line engraving, William Marshall, 1642, British Museum

Manuscript illumination

Mosaic

Oil and tempera on lime wood panel

Oil on canvas

Oil on oak panel

Oil on panel

Oil on panel, circa 1638, by Nicolaes Moeyaert, Rijksmuseum

Pieced cotton quilt

Portrait print, Rijksmuseum, 1793

Stained glass, hand blown colored glass

Tempera icon, kept veiled behind a protective covering

Woodcut, after Tobias Stimmer, 1549 to 1573, Rijksmuseum

Woodcut, Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493, Rijksmuseum

Woodcut, Wolgemut/Pleydenwurff workshop, 1493, Rijksmuseum