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Reddish vs Sinopia - What's the difference?

reddish | sinopia |

As an adjective reddish

is somewhat red.

As a noun sinopia is

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

reddish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Somewhat red.

    • 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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