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Sinople vs Sinopia - What's the difference?

sinople | sinopia |

As nouns the difference between sinople and sinopia

is that sinople is (obsolete) a shade of red; sinoper while sinopia is a reddish-brown ochre-like pigment, derived from sinople, used in traditional oil painting and as the cartoon for frescos.

sinople

English

Alternative forms

* sinoper, zinopre, synopre, synopar, zenober, synopeir, synapour, synamer, synaper

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A shade of red; sinoper.
  • (obsolete) Sinoper, a kind of red earth historically used as a pigment, originally imported to Greece from Sinope in Paphlagonia.
  • (mineralogy) ferruginous quartz of a blood-red or brownish red colour, sometimes with a tinge of yellow, used to make the pigment sinopia.
  • (obsolete, tincture) Vert.
  • * 1903 , George Field, Ellis A. Davidson, A grammar of colouring, applied to decorative painting and the arts
    • In heraldry, sinople (the green of blazonry) also signified love, joy, abundance.
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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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