Titian red

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Venus, Mars and Cupid, 1560, Paris Bordone , Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna

Titian red (also: tizianblond) is a gold- red shade named after the Italian painter Titian , which he liked to use to depict female hair. The color symbolizes passion and was the dyed hair of the courtesans of Venice , the Titian model were inspired.

Origin of color

Instead of just using an egg, as was customary at the time, the pigment was bound with oil and egg or only with oil, a type of color preparation that goes back to the Flemish painter Jan van Eyck .

Today's areas of application

In addition to painting, Titian red is used today in particular as hair color ( Schoenenberger Sanotint ) and as car paint ( Audi, BMW, Opel, Volkswagen, etc.).

credentials

  1. ↑ Philip Ball: Bright Earth. Nature, March 16, 2001 [1]

literature

Rudolf Köster: Proper names in the German vocabulary - a lexicon . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-11-017701-3 , p. 177.