Pompeian red

created by Webster 1913
(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Sat Jan 21 2006 at 17:20:09

Pompeian red. (Art)

A brownish red approaching maroon, supposed to be imitated from the color of the wall panels of houses in Pompeii, which were decorated during the last age of the Republic.

 

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