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Pigment vs Sinopia - What's the difference?

pigment | sinopia |

As nouns the difference between pigment and sinopia

is that pigment is pigment while sinopia is a reddish-brown ochre-like pigment, derived from sinople, used in traditional oil painting and as the cartoon for frescos.

pigment

English

(wikipedia pigment)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (biology) Any color in plant or animal cells
    • Chlorophyll is the pigment responsible for most plants' green colouring.
  • A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder
    • Umber is a pigment made from clay containing iron and manganese oxide.
  • (obsolete) Wine flavoured with spices and honey.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)

    Derived terms

    * pigmentary

    Related terms

    * pimiento

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To add color or pigment to something.

    • Derived terms

    * pigmentation

    Anagrams

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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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