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Pompeian red

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Pompeian red
n.
A grayish to moderate red.

[From its similarity to the color found on house walls at Pompeii.]


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It is a simple rectangular structure made of native stone, sheathed in plaster and painted a Pompeian red.
They are painted in rather muted colours which allow the paintings to speak from their frames: Pompeian red, slate blue and grey, and a rather dusky raw Siena.
That is Boston's Trinity Church, with a coffered ceiling, soaring square tower, and walls saturated in Pompeian red, decorated with superb murals of prophets, apostles, angels, and Biblical quotations.
 
 
 
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