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Ochre vs Sinopia - What's the difference?

ochre | sinopia |

As nouns the difference between ochre and sinopia

is that ochre is an earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide while sinopia is a reddish-brown ochre-like pigment, derived from sinople, used in traditional oil painting and as the cartoon for frescos.

As an adjective ochre

is having a yellow-orange colour.

As a verb ochre

is to cover with ochre.

ochre

English

(wikipedia ochre)

Alternative forms

* ocher

Noun

(en noun)
  • An earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide
  • A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour
  • (molecular biology, colloquial) The stop codon sequence "UAA."

    • Derived terms

    * brown ochre * gold ochre * purple ochre * red ochre * yellow ochre

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having a yellow-orange colour.
  • (archaeology) Referring to cultures that covered their dead with ochre.

    • Verb

    (ochr)
  • to cover with ochre

    • See also

    * ochrous * kokowai * ruddle *

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    sinopia

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A reddish-brown ochre-like pigment, derived from sinople, used in traditional oil painting and as the cartoon for frescos.
  • The rough sketch (executed in sinopia) which underlies a fresco.
  • * 1985 , Joseph Reese Strayer, Dictionary of the Middle Ages
    • Today many of the sinopias have been uncovered by a method called stacco.
  • *2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge 2008, p. 89:
  • *:In the course of lifting the frescoes from the walls the restorers discovered Simone's full-scale working drawings (in red chalk made from iron oxide and known as sinopie ) which lay directly beneath the painted plaster [...].
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