color

Sinopia

Colors & materials

Red iron-oxide underdrawing pigment of fresco — named for a Turkish source. Not sinoper as a forced duplicate id, and not red-ochre.

Also known as Sinoper

  • Sinopia is used in Dye.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats sinopis, the red earth of Sinope, among painters’ and colorants’ reds. A Roman-era pigment use of that named earth, not red-ochre as a general iron-earth already walked and not blood.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    used in · sourced · documented

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