GLOSSY RED

GLOSSY RED GLOSSARY -

(thanks to Hall, Marcia (1992) Color and Meaning: Practice and Theory in Renaissance Painting, Cambridge University Press: New York)

Bole – reddish earth used as the preparatory base under gold leaf in panel painting. P236

Cinnabar – a red mineral, mercuric sulfide, which when ground produces the pigment vermillion. P 237

Minium – red lead: an orangish red pigment. P 238

Ochre – an earth pigment ranging in color from yellowish to reddish to brownish tones suitable for fresco or easel painting. P 238

Realgar – a reddish orange pigment, related to orpiment and often used in conjunction with it. Also derived from arsenic and theefore poisonous. P 239

Sinopia – in fresco, the brush underdrawing applied, originally in the red earth sinoper, to the arriccio (layer of rough plaster) on which a second, smooth layer (intonaco) of plaster was applied for the final painting. P239

Venetian red – term used in the 17c and following to identify a red earth extracted from Badia di Calavena near Verona and used in cinquecento Venetian painting. P240

Vermillion – brilliant red pigment obtained from mercuric sulfide, with very good hiding power. P240

...many more to come