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Sienna   /siˈɛnə/   Listen
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Sienna  n.  (Chem.) Clay that is colored red or brown by the oxides of iron or manganese, and used as a pigment. It is used either in the raw state or burnt.
Burnt sienna, sienna made of a much redder color by the action of fire.
Raw sienna, sienna in its natural state, of a transparent yellowish brown color.






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... ill-gotten gain and her father's last wish still be fulfilled; but he convinced her that all interference was too late, for the things had been purchased by the Count di San Severino and the Seneschal de Beaucaire, who were already on their way with the French king to Sienna. ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol IV. • Editors: Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton

... Chrome Yellow, Gamboge, Yellow Ochre; or all three.* *Gamboge is best for drapery; Ochre for the face. Light Red. Indigo. Burnt Sienna. Bistre, or ...
— The History and Practice of the Art of Photography • Henry H. Snelling

... tree, named the Four Sisters, is five and twenty feet in girth. The mansion, of which, the central part was built by Inigo Jones, is a very noble one. George the Fourth pronounced the music room the finest room in England. The walls are of polished white marble with pilasters of sienna marble. The picture gallery is enriched with valuable specimens of the genius of Titian and Guido and Salvator Rosa and Sir Joshua Reynolds. There is another famous estate in Kent, Knole, ...
— Flowers and Flower-Gardens • David Lester Richardson

... portraits of herself, that in the Uffizi is signed by her as "of Cremona," which suggests that it was painted before she went to Spain. That in the Vienna Gallery is dated 1551, and inscribed Sophonisba Anguissola. Virgo. Sc. Ipsam Fecit. Still another, in which a man stands beside her, is in the Sienna Gallery. He holds a brush in his hand, and is ...
— Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. • Clara Erskine Clement

... Florence clearly realised this: 'Money is not profitable of itself alone, nor can it multiply itself, but it may become profitable through its employment by merchants';[1] and Bernardine of Sienna says: 'Money has not simply the character of money, but it has beyond this a productive character, which we commonly call capital.'[2] 'What is money,' says Brants, 'if it is not a means of exchange, of which the employment and preservation will give a profit, if he who possesses it ...
— An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching • George O'Brien


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