The Collaborative International Dictionary
Venetian \Ve*ne"tian\, a. [Cf. It. Veneziano, L. Venetianus.] Of or pertaining to Venice in Italy.
Venetian blind, a blind for windows, doors, etc., made of thin slats, either fixed at a certain angle in the shutter, or movable, and in the latter case so disposed as to overlap each other when close, and to show a series of open spaces for the admission of air and light when in other positions.
Venetian carpet, an inexpensive carpet, used for passages and stairs, having a woolen warp which conceals the weft; the pattern is therefore commonly made up of simple stripes.
Venetian chalk, a white compact or steatite, used for marking on cloth, etc.
Venetian door (Arch.), a door having long, narrow windows or panes of glass on the sides.
Venetian glass, a kind of glass made by the Venetians, for decorative purposes, by the combination of pieces of glass of different colors fused together and wrought into various ornamental patterns.
Venetian red, a brownish red color, prepared from sulphate of iron; -- called also scarlet ocher.
Venetian soap. See Castile soap, under Soap.
Venetian sumac (Bot.), a South European tree ( Rhus Cotinus) which yields the yellow dyewood called fustet; -- also called smoke tree.
Venetian window (Arch.), a window consisting of a main window with an arched head, having on each side a long and narrow window with a square head.
Wikipedia
Venetian red is a light and warm (somewhat unsaturated) pigment that is a darker shade of scarlet, derived from nearly pure ferric oxide (FeO) of the hematite type. Modern versions are frequently made with synthetic red iron oxide.
Historically, Venetian red was a red earth color often used in Italian Renaissance paintings. It was also called sinopia, because the best-quality pigment came from the port of Sinop in northern Turkey. It was the major ingredient in the pigment called , described by the 15th-century Italian painter and writer in his handbook on painting, . Cennini recommended mixing Venetian red with lime white, in proportions of two to one, to paint the skin tones of faces, hands and nudes.
The first recorded use of Venetian red as a color name in English was in 1753.
Usage examples of "venetian red".
Walls sported unexpectedly bright colors, yellow, purple, moss green, Venetian red.
Indian and Venetian red-and reaching for any one of a hundred prepared brushes.
So setting to work on a full-scale painting meant squeezing out a full palette of earth colors-yellow ochre, burnt sienna, raw umber, Indian and Venetian red-and reaching for any one of a hundred prepared brushes.