Sienna
- HEX
- #A0522D
- RGB
- 160 82 45
- HSL
- 19° 56% 40%
- CMYK
- 0 49 72 37
Sienna or Rust?
Duller and browner than rust.
History
Sienna is earth from Tuscany, dug on Monte Amiata in lands once ruled by the city of Siena. Raw sienna is a yellow-brown iron earth; roast it, the iron turns to hematite, and you get red-brown burnt sienna. Renaissance painters made it standard, and the Italian deposits were largely worked out by the 1940s. See earth-pigments.
Language
Sienna is recorded as a color name in English from 1760, and burnt sienna from 1853.
Kin
- Umber: Its darker partner in every painter's box of earths
- Ochre: Iron earths: heat turns yellow ochre red and raw sienna burnt
- Burnt orange: Another color 'burnt' darker and redder
In paintings
- The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli
- Composition VII, Wassily Kandinsky
- The Scream, Edvard Munch
Sources
- Wikipedia, 'Sienna' (Monte Amiata; first use 1760; burnt sienna 1853)
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