sinopie
/sɪˈnoʊpiˌeɪ/
noun
- A reddish-brown pigment made from iron oxide, used in art and painting.
- She bought a tube of sinopie to use in her landscape painting of the desert.
- The artist mixed sinopie with oil to create a warm, earthy tone for the portrait.
- Ancient frescoes often used sinopie as a base layer before adding brighter colors.
- A preliminary sketch or underdrawing made with this pigment, especially in fresco painting.
- Art historians studied the sinopie to understand the artist's original composition.
- The museum displayed the sinopie alongside the finished fresco to show the creative process.
- The restorers discovered a sinopie beneath the plaster of the medieval church wall.