"energy for the plants' growth. Similarly the hues of autumn leaves are from the same pigment after chlorophyll is removed. In Europe and America, surveys show that orange is the colour most associated with amusement, the unconventional, extroverts, warmth, fire, energy, activity, danger, taste and aroma, the autumn and Allhallowtide seasons, as well as having long been the national colour of the Netherlands and the House of Orange. It also serves as the political colour of Christian democracy political ideology and most Christian democratic political parties. In Asia it is an important symbolic colour of Buddhism and Hinduism. The colour"
"National colours of Italy The national colours of Italy are green, white, and red, collectively known in Italian as ""il tricolore"" (the tricolour). In sport in Italy, azure has been used or adopted as the colour for many national teams, the first being the men's football team in 1910. The ""tricolore"" was symbolically important preceding and throughout the ""Risorgimento"" leading to Italian unification. In September 1794, Luigi Zamboni and Giambattista de Rolandis created a flag by uniting the white and red of the flag of Bologna with green, a symbol of liberty and hope that the populace of Italy join"
"This colour is the colour on the colour wheel () halfway between azure and cyan. The traditional name for this colour is Capri. The first use of ""Capri"" as a colour name in English was in 1920. The colour ""Capri"" in general is named for the azure-cyan colour of the Mediterranean sea around the island of Capri off Italy, the site of several villas belonging to the Roman Emperor Tiberius, including his Imperial residence in his later years, the ""Villa Jovis"". Specifically, the colour Capri is named after the colour of the Blue Grotto on the island of Capri. as"
"worn on 6 January 1911 in a match against Hungary in Milan. In sport, many men's national teams are known as the ""azzurri"" and women's teams as the ""azzurre"" (meaning ""azure""). These include the men's basketball, men's football, men's ice hockey, men's rugby league, men's rugby union, and men's volleyball teams, and the women's basketball, women's football, women's ice hockey, and women's volleyball teams. The national auto racing colour of Italy is rosso corsa (""racing red""). The Frecce Tricolori, the aerobatics demonstration team of the Italian Aeronautica Militare based at Rivolto Air Force Base, are so named for the green,"
"white, and red smoke trails emitted during performances, representing the national colours. The name of ""Italia Peak"", a peak in the Elk Mountains of Colorado in the United States, is derived from the display on one of its faces, when seen at a distance, of ""brilliant red, white and green colors, the national colors of Italy"". National colours of Italy The national colours of Italy are green, white, and red, collectively known in Italian as ""il tricolore"" (the tricolour). In sport in Italy, azure has been used or adopted as the colour for many national teams, the first being the"
"Rosso corsa Rosso corsa is the red international motor racing colour of cars entered by teams from Italy. Since the 1920s Italian race cars of Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Lancia, and later Ferrari and Abarth have been painted in ""rosso corsa"" (""racing red""). This was the customary national racing colour of Italy as recommended between the world wars by the organisations that later became the FIA. In that scheme of international auto racing colours French cars were blue (Bleu de France), British cars were green (British racing green), etc. In Formula One, the colour was not determined by the country the"
"Albaranzeuli bianco Albaranzeuli bianco is a white Italian wine grape variety that is grown primarily in Sardinia. Ampelographers use to believe that the grape was originally Spanish in origin and was introduced to the island when it was ruled by the Crown of Aragon. Recent DNA profiling has suggested that the grape may have originated on the island as a crossing between the red Sardinian wine grape Girò and the Spanish table grape Molinera, known locally as ""Pansa Rosa di Málaga"" and distinct from the Veneto wine grape Molinara that is used in Amarone. A pink skinned grape known as"
"to the ankle. A campaign hat and pan helmet completed the uniform. The recognizable elements of the Italian khaki uniforms were the insignia and the grade emblems. Despite paratroopers preferring the khaki uniforms, they continued to wear the grey-green berets, helmets and the traditional campaign hats. On 10 June 1967, the Paratroopers Brigade granted the name “Folgore” to the Battaglione Paracadutisti, and the beret's color subsequently changed to amaranth (a colour adopted by many paratrooper units all over the world). The Italian 9th paratrooper assault regiment is a special forces’ department of the Italian Army. In 1997, Col Moschin re-adopted"
"Albaranzeuli nero Albaranzeuli nero is a red Italian wine grape variety that is primarily found in Sardinia. The grape is often confused with the red Sardinian grape Girò which is believed to be a parent variety of the white grape Albaranzeuli bianco. However recent DNA profiling has not established a direct link between Albaranzeuli nero and either Girò or Albaranzeuli bianco. Ampelographers use to believe that the grape was originally Spanish in origin and was introduced to the island when it was ruled by the Crown of Aragon. The hypothesis was bolstered by the grape's Spanish name and its association"
"Cornicello A cornicello, cornetto, (Italian for ""little horn"" or ""hornlet"") or corno, (Italian for “horn”) is an Italian amulet or talisman worn to protect against the evil eye (or ""malocchio"") and bad luck in general, and, historically, to promote fertility and virility. In Neapolitan, it is called ""curniciello"" or variants thereof. The amulet is also sometimes referred to as the Italian horn. A cornicello is a twisted horn-shaped charm often made of gold, silver, plastic, bone, terracotta, or red coral. Cornicelli are thought to be modeled after an eland horn, to represent fertility, virility, and strength. The shape and colour"
"Verdaccio Verdaccio is an Italian name for the mixture of black, white, and yellow pigments resulting in a grayish or yellowish (depending on the proportion) soft greenish brown. Verdaccio became an integral part of fresco painting, in which this color is used for defining tonal values, forming a complete monochromatic underpainting. Often architectural details in frescoes are left in verdaccio without any additional color layers; a notable example is the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, where verdaccio underpainting can be clearly seen, left as it is on all architectural details of the composition. In oil painting, a similar technique is"
"was formulated by Crayola crayons in 2003. At the right is displayed the color wine. The color ""wine"" is a representation of the average color of red wine. The first recorded use of ""wine"" as a color name in English was in 1705. The color Byzantium is displayed at the right. The first recorded use of ""byzantium"" as a color name in English was in 1926. Eggplant is a dark purple, or purpleish brown, color that resembles the color of the outer skin of European eggplants. Another name for the color ""eggplant"" is aubergine (the French and British English word"
"seven colours — purple, blue, azure, green, yellow, orange, and red — and is emblazoned in bold with the Italian word ""PACE"", meaning ""peace"". It became popular with the ""Pace da tutti i balconi"" (""peace from every balcony"") campaign in 2002, started as a protest against the impending war in the world. The flag was flown from balconies in all Italian cities by citizens against the war. Its use spread to other countries too, and the Italian ""Pace"" was sometimes, but not everywhere, replaced with the corresponding translation in the local languages. According to Amnesty International, producer Franco Belsito had"
"and Alvarenzelin nero. Albaranzeuli nero Albaranzeuli nero is a red Italian wine grape variety that is primarily found in Sardinia. The grape is often confused with the red Sardinian grape Girò which is believed to be a parent variety of the white grape Albaranzeuli bianco. However recent DNA profiling has not established a direct link between Albaranzeuli nero and either Girò or Albaranzeuli bianco. Ampelographers use to believe that the grape was originally Spanish in origin and was introduced to the island when it was ruled by the Crown of Aragon. The hypothesis was bolstered by the grape's Spanish name"
"pale cyan or white cyan. The color azure ultimately takes its name from the intense blue mineral lapis lazuli. ' is the Latin word for ""stone"" and ' is the genitive form of the Medieval Latin """", which is taken from the Arabic ""lāzaward"", itself from the Persian ""lāžaward"", which is the name of the stone in Persian and also of a place where lapis lazuli was mined. The name of the stone came to be associated with its color. The French ', the Italian ', the Polish ', Romanian ' and ', the Portuguese and Spanish ', Hungarian """","
"Cangiante According to the theory of the art historian Marcia B. Hall, which has gained considerable acceptance, cangiante is one of four modes of painting colours available to Italian High Renaissance painters, along with sfumato, chiaroscuro and ""unione"". The word itself derives from the Italian ""cangiare"" (""to change""). ""Cangiante"" is characterized by a change in color necessitated by an original color's darkness or lightness limitation. For example, when painting shadows on a yellow object, the artist may use a red color simply because the yellow paint cannot be made dark enough. There are other methods of rendering shadows or highlights"
"arms of the House of Sforza; the presence of ""biscione"" in Poland (Sanok) and Belarus (Pruzhany) is due to queen Bona Sforza. The word ""biscione"" is a masculine augmentative of Italian feminine ""biscia"", ""non-venomous snake""; ""grass snake"" (corrupted from ""bistia"", ultimately from Latin ""bestia""). As the symbol of Milan, the biscione is also used by the football club Inter Milan, by car manufacturer Alfa Romeo (also known as the """"Casa del biscione"""", Italian for ""House of the biscione"" or ""Biscione['s] marque"") and, in a version where a flower replaces the child (maybe due to possible interpretations as a racist symbol),"
"a darker shade of ""azzurro"". ""Celeste"" literally means '(the color) of the sky' and can be used as synonym of ""azzurro"", although it will more often be considered a less saturated hue. ' (aquamarine) literally ""sea water"", indicates an even lighter, almost transparent, shade of blue. To indicate a mix of green and blue, Italians might say ""verde "", literally ""water green"". The term ', not common in standard italian and perceived as a literary term, is used in scientific contexts (esp. botany) to indicate a mix of blue, green and gray. Other similar terms are ' and """" (turquoise/teal);"
"the traditional black and blue. After World War II, when the Fascists had fallen from power, the club reverted to their original name and colours. In 2008, Inter celebrated their centenary with a red cross on their away shirt. The cross is reminiscent of the flag of their city, and they continue to use the pattern on their third kit. In 2014, the club adopted a predominantly black home kit with thin blue pinstripes before returning to a more traditional design the following season. Animals are often used to represent football clubs in Italy – the grass snake, called ""Biscione"""
"24 hours. The prince's prize was simply a magnum of Mumm champagne, and the red colour of his 1907 Itala car was adopted by Italy as its racing colour in his honour. Rosso corsa Rosso corsa is the red international motor racing colour of cars entered by teams from Italy. Since the 1920s Italian race cars of Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Lancia, and later Ferrari and Abarth have been painted in ""rosso corsa"" (""racing red""). This was the customary national racing colour of Italy as recommended between the world wars by the organisations that later became the FIA. In that scheme"
"Flag of Italy The flag of Italy (), often referred to in Italian as il Tricolore (); is a tricolour featuring three equally-sized vertical pales of green, white and red, with the green at the hoist side. Its current form has been in use since 18 June 1946 and was formally adopted on 1 January 1948. The first entity to use the Italian tricolour was the Cisalpine Republic in 1797, which supplanted Milan after Napoleon's victorious army crossed Italy in 1796. The colours chosen by the Cispadane Republic were red and white, which were the colours of the recently conquered"
"the Italian tricolour flag."" As the arms, blazoned ""gules a cross argent"", mixed with the white of the flag, it was ""fimbriated azure"", blue being the dynastic colour, although this does not conform to the heraldic rule of tincture. The rectangular civil and state variants were adopted in 1851. In the same year, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany became constitutional and dropped the Austrian flag, with Austria–Lorraine great coat of arms, in favour of the defaced Italian tricolour with simplified arms. It is worthy of note, however, that the arms bear the red-white-red flag of Austria, the opponent of Italian"
"Magenta took its name from an aniline dye made and patented in 1859 by the French chemist François-Emmanuel Verguin, who originally called it ""fuchsine"". It was renamed to celebrate the Italian-French victory at the Battle of Magenta fought between the French and Austrians on June 4, 1859, near the Italian town of Magenta in Lombardy. A virtually identical color, called roseine, was created in 1860 by two British chemists: Chambers Nicolson and George Maule. The web color magenta is also called fuchsia. Magenta is an extra-spectral color, meaning that it is not found in the visible spectrum of light. Rather,"
"that of the Habsburgs, historical enemies of the then ruling Italian house and considered inappropriate. Given the need to adopt a definitive color the founders opted in the end for granata, a dark red, similar to burgundy. The most accepted story is that it was adopted in honour of the Duke of the Abruzzi and the House of Savoy, which, after the victorious liberation of Turin from the French in 1706, adopted a blood-colored handkerchief in honour of a messenger killed bringing the news of victory. Other reconstructions, considered less reliable, speak of a tribute to the founder Alfredo Dick,"
"its debut season in the second tier, ended in a safe mid-table position. Virtus Lanciano gained national news in end-2013 after the club, now headed by Marco Baroni, surprised the whole country by leading the league table undefeated, against all odds, by the end of October. The club ended the 2015–16 season with relegation, and successively renounced to register for the new Lega Pro season due to financial and administrative issues. The club was excluded altogether from the Italian football league pyramid, and is currently only active as a youth sector. The team's official colors are red and black. S.S."
"Ufficiale) for polyester fabric bunting to use the following Pantone Textile Colour System values: The national colours are specified in the Constitution of Italy to be used on the Flag of Italy, a vertical tricolour flag of green, white, and red. It is also used on the cockade, another of the national symbols of Italy. Its use of the national colours was the antecedent for its use in the flag. The Presidential Standard of Italy is the flag used by the President of the Italian Republic, the nation's head of state. It is based on the square flag of the"
"of all-time and highest ever transfer for an Italian club when he signed for €90 million to Juventus. As Naples is a coastal city, the colours of the club have always been derived from the blue waters of the Gulf of Naples. Originally, while using the name ""Naples FBC"", the colours of the club implemented two shades of blue. However, since the 1920s, a singular blue tone has been used in the form of azure. Thus, Napoli share the nickname """"Azzurri"""" with the Italy national team. The shade of blue has been sky blue in many instances. One of the"
"Ferrario 1919 colour list. Burnt sienna contains a large proportion of anhydrous iron oxide. It is made by heating raw sienna, which dehydrates the iron oxide, changing it partially to haematite, giving it rich reddish-brown colour. The pigment is also known as red earth, red ochre, and terra rossa. On the Colour Index International, the pigment is known as PR-102. This version is from the Italian Ferrario 1919 colour list. The first recorded use of ""burnt sienna"" as a colour name in English was in 1853. This variation of burnt sienna is from the Maerz and Paul ""A Dictionary of"
"by S.Fantetti and C.Petracchi and describes multiple variants of Celeste as shown below, plus details as defined in the infobox above. Bianchi bicycles are traditionally painted celeste, also known as Bianchi Green (and sometimes, incorrectly Tiffany Blue). Contradictory myths say celeste is the colour of the Milan sky; the eye colour of a former queen for whom Edoardo Bianchi made a bicycle; and that it was a mixture of surplus military paint. The exact shade of turquoise used by the company has varied over time, but has always been described as Celeste. In Anglophone countries Celeste is sometimes reported as"
"Fuchsia (color) Fuchsia (, ) is a vivid purplish red color, named after the color of the flower of the fuchsia plant, which took its name from the 16th century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs. The color fuchsia was first introduced as the color of a new aniline dye called fuchsine, patented in 1859 by the French chemist François-Emmanuel Verguin. The dye was renamed magenta later in the same year, to celebrate a victory of the French army at the Battle of Magenta on June 4, 1859, near the Italian city of that name. In the RGB color model, used to"
"the first person buried there in over 300 years. An apocryphal story about the history of pizza holds that on 11 June 1889, Neapolitan pizzamaker Raffaele Esposito created a pizza to honour Margherita of Savoy, who was visiting the city. It was garnished with tomatoes, mozzarella, and basil to represent the national colours of Italy, and was named ""Pizza Margherita"". In 2003, the government of Italy specified the colours using Pantone. The new specification was demonstrated on sample flags displayed at Palazzo Montecitorio; they had a darker tint than the traditional colours, described as having a deeper green, a red"
"the color ""lavender"" has a hue code of 275, it may be regarded as a light tone of violet. Displayed at right is the color wisteria. It represents the color of wisteria blooms. A crayon of this color and name was formulated by Crayola in 1993. At right is displayed the color French violet, which is the tone of violet that is called ""violet"" in the Pourpre.com color list, a color list widely popular in France. The color African violet is displayed at right. The source of this color is the ""Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)"" color list, color #16-3250"
"with ""ruby hues"", and ivory or cream instead of white. Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio, president of the Federation of the Greens and a member of the Chamber of Deputies, stated that Silvio Berlusconi had achieved a ""chromatic coup d'état"". Government officials stated that the sample flags did not conform to the ""specified chromatic specification"". The values were revised after discussion, and in 2006 were decreed by law in Article 31 of ""Disposizioni generali in materia di cerimoniale e di precedenza tra le cariche pubbliche"" (""General provisions relating to ceremonial materials and precedence for public office"", published 28 July 2006 in Gazzetta"