Chap. 13.] SINOPIS. 235 



lion of light and shade, the alternating contrast of the colours 

 serving to heighten the effect of each. At a later period, again, 

 lustre 7 was added, a tiling altogether di Moron t from light. The 

 gradation between lustre and light on the one hand and shade 

 on the other, was called " tonos ;" while the blending of the 

 various tints, and their passing into one another, was known as 

 " harmoge." b 



CHAP. 12. (G.) ITOMKXTS OTHER THAN THOSE OF A METALLIC 



OUIGIN. AKTIF1CIAL COLOUKS. 



Colours are cither 9 sorahre or florid, these qualities arising 

 cither from the nature of the substances or their mode of com- 

 bination. The florid colours ijre those which the employer 

 supplies'* to the painter at his own expense; minium, 11 

 namely, armcnium, cinnabaris, 12 chrysocolla, 13 indicum, and 

 purpurissum. The others are the sombre colours. Taking 

 both kinds together, some are native colours, and others are 

 artificial. Sinopis, rubrica, panctonium, melinum, eretria and 

 orpi merit, are native colours. The others arc artificial, more 

 particularly those described by us when speaking of metals ; 

 in addition to which there are, among the more common colours, 

 ochra, usta or burnt ceruse, suiularuch, sandyx, syricum, and 

 atramentum. 



CHAP. 13. SIXOTIS: KLKVKX KKMEDIKS. 



Sinopis 11 was discovered in Pontus; and hence its name, 

 from the city of Sinope there. It is produced also in Kirypt, 



7 "Splendor,** Supposed by \Vornum to be equivalent to our word 

 4< tone," applied to a coloured picture, which comprehends botb the " tonos" 

 diid the " !ianii'rrc" of tbc Greeks. {Sinitli'H Diet. Antiq. Art. Ptiinting. 



b ** Tone," says Fusi-li, (in tbc Kn^lisb ueceptatinn of the word) ** is tbe 

 element of tbe ancient 'banno^e,' that imperceptible transition, Kbich, 

 vntboiit opacity, confusion, or hardness, united local colour, demittut, shade, 

 and r. ilexes." Leet. I. " Austeri aut lioridi." 



10 Ileeause of tbeir comparatively great expense. 



11 Sec 1J. xxxiii. ce. 30, ,'i7. Uiidcr this name arc included Sulpburet of 

 mercury, and lied oxide of lead. 12 See li. xxxiii. cc. 58, 3D. 



13 .Sec IJ. xxxiii. c. *J'j. * Indicum" and 4< purpuribsum" will be de- 

 scribed in tbe present 1'ook. 



11 Or u rubric:! Sinopicu ;" "red cartb of Sinope," a brown red ocbre, 

 or red oxiilc of iron, l^iuscorides identifies it with the Greek //iXrtV, 

 which indeed seems to have embraced the cinnabans, miuium, and rubricu* 

 of the Kumans. 



