Instead, they favored traditional tempera renderings of gods, local relics and rural folk.

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The intellectual practices of doubting authority and trying out experiments happened on lutes and with tempera on gesso before they turned toward the stars.

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Egg Tempera, which uses egg yolk to bind pigments, dates back to Egyptian times but became largely obsolete after oil paints appeared in the Renaissance.

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Facing each other across the large room, both works measure roughly 6 feet by 20 feet and consist of three panels in tempera on canvas.

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Yet this rich exhibition, the first of its kind in France, is still a remarkable coup given that curators fear lending fragile tempera paintings on wood.

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Pyne, who graduated from the Government College of Art and Craft in Calcutta, began his career drawing in watercolours before moving to the gouache and tempera form of painting.

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