Persian red
Color
title: "Persian red" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["shades-of-red", "inorganic-pigments"] description: "Color" topic_path: "general/shades-of-red" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_red" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Color ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| title | Persian red |
| hex | CC3333 |
| image | Pazyryk carpet.jpg |
| source | ColorHexa |
| isccname | Vivid red |
| :: |
|title=Persian red |hex=CC3333 |image=Pazyryk carpet.jpg |source=ColorHexa |isccname=Vivid red}}
Persian red is a deep reddish orange earth or pigment from the Persian Gulf composed of a silicate of iron and alumina, with magnesia. It is also called artificial vermillion.
The first recorded use of Persian red as a color name in English was in 1895.
Other colors associated with Persia include Persian pink, Persian rose, Persian orange, Persian blue and Persian green.
In human culture
- Henry Hobson Richardson insisted upon a ground of Persian red for the murals John LaFarge executed lining the interior of Trinity Church, Boston.
References
References
- "Persian red / #cc3333 hex color".
- Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 201
- Raguin, Virginia C. Decorator: John LaFarge in ''The makers of Trinity Church in the city of Boston'', ed. James F. O'Gorman, D. Amherst : [[University of Massachusetts Press]], c2004. p 120
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