Of flutes and soft recorders.”
(Paradise Lost, i. 550.)
Recta, R. A straight tunic, made out of a single piece, which took the form of the body; it hung from the neck, and fell down as far as the feet.
Rectilinear figures are those composed entirely of straight or right lines.
Red. One of the three primary colours, producing with YELLOW, orange, and with BLUE, violet. The principal red pigments are carmine, vermilion, chrome red, scarlet lake, madder lake, light red, burnt sienna, for yellow reds; and Venetian red, Indian red, crimson lake, for blue reds. Red, in Christian art, represented by the ruby, signified fire, divine love, the Holy Spirit, heat or the creative power, and royalty. In a bad sense, red signified blood, war, hatred, and punishment. Red and black combined were the colours of purgatory and the devil. (See Realgar, Indigo.)
Red Chalk or Reddle is a mixture of clay and red iron OCHRE, used as a crayon in drawing. (See Ochre.)
Red Lake. (See Carmine.)
Red Lead. A pigment which mixes badly with other pigments. (See Minium.)
Red Ochre includes Indian red, scarlet ochre, Indian ochre, reddle, &c.
Red Orpiment. (See Realgar.)