tuscan_red colors

Literary analysis:

Tuscan red is frequently invoked as a richly evocative color in literature, often employed to give both technical precision and atmospheric nuance. In art-related texts, it appears alongside hues such as Indian red, Venetian red, and rose pink, highlighting its role in achieving a spectrum of warm, earthy tones through careful mixing ([1], [2], [3]). Writers also detail its formulation—whether enhanced with a lake colour for brilliance or blended with ultramarine blue to create distinctive shades ([4], [5])—underscoring its versatility in artistic expression. Beyond technical descriptions, Tuscan red emerges in vivid scene settings, such as a faded brick floor that evokes a mellow yet striking ambiance, thereby enriching the narrative landscape ([6]).

Indian red and Tuscan red, of shades suited to the shades of the wine color afford excellent ground colors.
— from Practical Carriage and Wagon Painting A Treatise on the Painting of Carriages, Wagons and Sleighs, Embracing Full and Explicit Directions for Executing All Kinds of Work, Including Painting Factory Work, Lettering, Scrolling, Ornamenting, Varnishing, etc., with Many Tested Recipes and Formulas by M. C. (Mayton Clarence) Hillick
Venetian, Indian and Tuscan Reds, etc.
— from Paint & Colour Mixing A practical handbook for painters, decorators and all who have to mix colours, containing 72 samples of paint of various colours, including the principal graining grounds by Arthur Seymour Jennings
Tuscan Red. Ordinary.—Nine parts Indian red to 1 part rose pink.
— from Henley's Twentieth Century Formulas, Recipes and Processes
Tuscan Red is a mixture of Indian red with some sort of lake colour in order to secure brilliancy.
— from Paint & Colour Mixing A practical handbook for painters, decorators and all who have to mix colours, containing 72 samples of paint of various colours, including the principal graining grounds by Arthur Seymour Jennings
It may also be made by mixing one part of ultramarine blue with three parts of Tuscan red.
— from Paint & Colour Mixing A practical handbook for painters, decorators and all who have to mix colours, containing 72 samples of paint of various colours, including the principal graining grounds by Arthur Seymour Jennings
The one into which they stepped was large and square, with a floor of brick faded to a mellow Tuscan red, and walls of soft brown plaster.
— from A Man's Hearth by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram

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