Burnt sienna

Burnt sienna

Description

A dark reddish brown iron oxide pigment prepared by burning raw sienna. Burnt sienna is a permanent pigment. Named for the south Italian city of Siena that produced fine grades of the pigment, it was originally called Italian earth.

Synonyms and Related Terms

Pigment Brown 6; CI 77491; Gebrannte Siena (Deut.); siena tostado (Esp.); terre de Sienne brle (Fr.); sienna psimeni (Gr.); terra di Siena bruciata (It.); bruine oker (Ned.); gebrande siena (Ned.); terra de Siena queimada (Port.); Caledonian brown; burnt ocher; mineral brown; Turkey umber; Italian earth;

Burnt sienna

Density	3.56
Refractive Index	1.85 (var.)

Hazards and Safety

No significant hazards.

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Authority

• R. J. Gettens, G.L. Stout, R. J. Gettens, G.L. Stout, Painting Materials, A Short Encyclopaedia, Dover Publications, New York, 1966 Comment: density = 3.56 and ref. index = 1.85

• Ralph Mayer, Ralph Mayer, A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, Harper and Row Publishers, New York, 1969 (also 1945 printing)

• Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996

• G.S.Brady, G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 557

• Michael McCann, Michael McCann, Artist Beware, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York City, 1979

• Random House, Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997

• The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998

• Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2000