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語源

From Italian sinopia. Compare sinoper.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /sɪˈnəʊpɪə/

名詞

sinopia (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 sinopias または sinopie)

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

   Synonym: sinoper

   sinopia colour:  

2. (art) 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 かつ known as sinopie) which lay directly beneath the painted plaster [...].

Further reading

• sinopia on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• pisonia