Italian term to indicate a dark reddish-brown natural earth pigment, found in the Turkish city Sinop. It was used in the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance for the preparatory drawing for a fresco.
CallipigiaGiuseppe ArcimboldiBenvenuto CelliniPippa BaccaSimone PeterzanoGiorgio de ChiricoTina ModottiTiziano
Hubert Gravelot François Boucher Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Egon Schiele
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