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  2. Liturgical colours - Wikipedia

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    Purple or wine-red: Saturdays and Sundays during Great Lent; In many places, purple or dark red are only worn on the weekdays of the Great Fast, while bright colors (gold, gold/white) are used on Saturdays and Sundays. Red: Holy Thursday; Feast of the Cross; Beheading of St. John the Baptist; Feasts of Martyrs; Nativity Fast; Apostles' Fast

  3. Byzantium (color) - Wikipedia

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    Deep reddish purple. B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) The color Byzantium is a particular dark tone of purple. It originates in modern times, and, despite its name, it should not be confused with Tyrian purple ( hue rendering ), the color historically used by Roman and Byzantine emperors.

  4. Tyrian purple - Wikipedia

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    Byzantine Emperor Justinian I clad in Tyrian purple, 6th-century mosaic at Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy. The colour-fast (non-fading) dye was an item of luxury trade, prized by Romans, who used it to colour ceremonial robes.

  5. Blue–green distinction in language - Wikipedia

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    This is a colloquial rendering of thanh (靑), as with Chinese and Japanese. In modern usage, blue and green are dislexified. Shades of blue are specifically described as xanh da trời (blue skin of sky), or xanh dương, xanh nước biển, (blue of ocean). Green is described as xanh lá cây (green of leaves).

  6. Byzantine illuminated manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    The pages were ornately decorated with gold paint and reddish-purple backgrounds. Prophet or Gospel Books. One of the earliest known illuminated New Testament manuscripts is the 6th-century Rossano Gospels.

  7. Purple - Wikipedia

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    Purple was the color worn by Roman magistrates; it became the imperial color worn by the rulers of the Byzantine Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, and later by Roman Catholic bishops. Similarly in Japan , the color is traditionally associated with the emperor and aristocracy.

  8. Byzantine silk - Wikipedia

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    Regulations governing the use of expensive Tyrian purple dyestuffs varied over the years, but cloth dyed in these colours was generally restricted to specific classes and was used in diplomatic gifts. Other dyes used in Byzantine silk workshops were madder, kermes, indigo, weld, and sappanwood.

  9. Byzantine flags and insignia - Wikipedia

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    Byzantine flags and insignia. For most of its history, the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire did not use heraldry in the Western European sense of permanent motifs transmitted through hereditary right. [1] Various large aristocratic families employed certain symbols to identify themselves; [1] the use of the cross, and of icons of Christ, the ...

  10. Shades of purple - Wikipedia

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    Shades of purple. There are numerous variations of the color purple, a sampling of which is shown below. In common English usage, purple is a range of hues of color occurring between red and blue. [1] However, the meaning of the term purple is not well defined. There is confusion about the meaning of the terms purple and violet even among ...

  11. Blue in culture - Wikipedia

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    Byzantine and Islamic. Dark blue was widely used in the decoration of churches in the Byzantine Empire. In Byzantine art, Jesus and the Virgin Mary usually wore dark blue or purple. Blue was used as a background colour representing the sky in the magnificent mosaics which decorated Byzantine churches.