What's the difference between sinoper and sinopis?
Sinoper
Definition:
(n.) Sinople.
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Sinopis
Definition:
(n.) A red pigment made from sinopite.
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(1) Sometimes these uncovered sinopie resemble, sometimes they're a little different from, and occasionally they're completely other than, what we've been looking at for all the centuries on the surface.
(2) The restorers, who invented ingenious ways of peeling the frescoes off the walls to mend or save them from the elements over the centuries, invariably found that they had structural underdrawings, the original sketches or figurings underneath the finished work, called sinopie , after the rust-coloured sticks the artists used to sketch their plans or drafts.