Tizianrot

Venus, Mars und Cupido, 1560, Paris Bordone, Kunsthistorisches Museum in Wien

Tizian red (also: tizianblond) is a golden red hue, named after the Italian painter Tizian, whom he liked to represent the female hair. The color symbolizes passion and was inspired by the dyed hair of the courtesans of Venice, the Titian model.

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Instead of as usual with egg only, the pigment was bound with oil and egg or only with oil, a kind of color preparation that goes back to the Flemish painter Jan van Eyck. Today's fields of application Edit source text

Except in painting today, Tizian red is used especially as a hair color (Schoenenberger Sanotint) and as Autolack (Audi, BMW, Opel, Volkswagen etc.). Calculate source text Edit source text

Rudolf Köster: Own Names in German Vocabulary - A Lexicon. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-11-017701-3, p. 177.

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