Question

Titian, an Italian painter, would often depict women with hair of this colour. It has been used as a hair colour term since as early as the $1800s$, when women were commonly dyeing their hair a Titian colour. What colour is Titian a shade of?

• A. Black
• B. Red
• C. Green
• D. Blue

Answer 1

The correct option is B Red

• Titian was the greatest painter of 16th-century Venice. He had great mastery in the use of colours. He would often depict women with red hair in his paintings and thus established the colour Titian.
• Titian is a tint of red hair, most commonly described as brownish-orange in color.