Characteristics: Advantages, Disadvantages. Tempera is typically applied onto a prepared surface. Wood panel paintings, for instance, were prepared with layers of gesso (a mixture of size and chalk) to form a smooth surface. The tempera was then applied (over a prepared drawing or sketch) and built up slowly in a series of thin, transparent layers.
Corporations are defined as entities because they have a legal identity separate from those of their owners.orporations are defined as entities because they have a legal identity separate from those of their owners.
entity. 1  Something that exists as a particular and discrete unit: Persons and corporations are equivalent entities under the law. 2  The fact of existence; being. 3  The existence of something considered apart from its properties.