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Colours of painting and art

On the palette: oils, watercolour, fresco, miniature and mural.

#F4C430 Saffron A yellow-orange shade named after the colour of saffron crocus threadsNamed shade · 🇮🇳 India +1

#318CE7 Bleu de France A vivid blue long linked with France and its national identityNamed shade · 🇫🇷 France

#D40000 Rosso corsa The deep red that marks Italian racing cars and teamsNational or team colour · 🇮🇹 Italy

Green Vert The heraldic name for green, seen on coats of arms and many national flagsHeraldic colour · 🇧🇷 Brazil +4

#E4007C Mexican pinkrosa mexicano A vivid purplish pink seen throughout Mexican art and traditionNamed shade · 🇲🇽 Mexico

#682860 Palatinate A purple shade long tied to Durham University and its traditionsNamed shade

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Bleu de France: Lars-Göran Lindgren Sweden, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Mexican pink: Mark Mitchell, CC BY 2.0, source
Palatinate: AlexD, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Rosso corsa: Matthew Lamb, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Vert: Michal Klajban, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Saffron: Albert Bridge, CC BY-SA 2.0, source

The weekly palette

Every Monday: seven colours you may not know, what the world is wearing this week, and one idea about colour.