Vermilion
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Vermilion is a color family and toxic pigment most often used between antiquity and the 19th century and made from the powdered mineral cinnabar. It is synonymous with red orange.
The Venetian painter Titian used vermilion for dramatic effect. In the Assumption of the Virgin (1516–18), the vermilion robes draw the eye to the main characters.
A Chinese "cinnabar red" carved lacquer box from the Qing dynasty (1736–1795), National Museum of China, Beijing
Cinnabar crystals from the Almaden Mine in northern California
Cinnabar crystals on dolomite from Tongren Prefecture, Guizhou, China
Scarlet (color)
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Scarlet is a bright red color, sometimes with a slightly orange tinge. In the spectrum of visible light, and on the traditional color wheel, it is one-quarter of the way between red and orange, slight
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…Chinese red" appears in English in 1924. Red Scarlet (color) Persian red ("artificial vermilion") List of colors…
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Nelson Tower in Scarlet geograph.org.uk 5188743
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