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sinopia|sɪˈnəʊpɪə|
[It.; cf. sinoper, sinople.]
1. = sinoper 2 a.
1844M. P. Merrifield tr. Cennini's Treatise on Painting xxxviii. 22 There is a natural red pigment, which is called sinopia or porphyry. 1910A. P. Laurie Materials of Painter's Craft x. 208 Sinopia..is one of the many names under which red ochres are mentioned. 1978Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Oct. 1208/3 Trecento fresco painters normally drew direct on the wall in sinopia without preliminary drawings.
2. transf. The preliminary rough sketch for a fresco, covered by the final work. Pl. sinopie.
1958Times 10 Dec. 3/4 During the process of detaching a fresco from the wall it is often possible to separate it also from the sinopia—that is, the preliminary rough sketch. 1969Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 28 Mar. 28/3 Their long hidden sinopie, as the preparatory full-size wall-drawings are called, are generally our only witness to the evolution of their ideas. 1975E. H. Gombrich Let. 14 Nov. in Ideas & Idols (1979) 182 Are the sinopie really better than the frescoes? 1981M. Delahaye Sale of Lot 236 xxiii. 197 The sinopia..had also to be right technically... He was safe in the materials. Charcoal, ochre, and sinopite were all natural substances. |