List of things named Venetian


The list of things named Venetian is quite extensive.
Venetian generally describes anything from or related to the Italian city of Venice, or the Veneto region, or of the Republic of Venice, a historical nation in that area. The term may also refer to the Venetian language, a Romance language spoken mostly in the Veneto region.
The term Venetian may also mean from or related to the American city of Venice, Florida, in Sarasota County.
There are many concept names that use the term "Venetian" in those general senses, such as Venetian cuisine, Venetian music, Venetian grammar, etc. There are however many concepts where "Venetian" has a special sense that cannot be deduced form the general ones. There are also many people, buildings, and works of art with "Venetian" in their name.

Special senses

History

Geography

Styles of arts and crafts

Objects and products

Architecture and furniture

  • Venetian arch, a usually pointed arch with a band wider at the peak than at the spring
  • Venetian blind, or Venetian, a common type of window blind similar to Persian blind
  • Venetian curtain, a type of theater front curtain
  • Venetian dentil, an architectural ornament; a type of dentil
  • Venetian door, a door with narrow sidelights, like a Venetian window
  • Venetian carpet, a type of inexpensive carpet
  • Venetian window, a type of window with arched top flanked by two narrow sidelights

Utensils, materials, plants

  • Venetian ball, a ball of glass with enclosed objects, often used as paperweight
  • Venetian blind shades or shutter shades, sunglasses with horizontal slats instead of lenses
  • Venetian chalk, a white compact talc or steatite used especially for marking on cloth
  • Venetian mask, a special variety traditionally worn in the Carnival of Venice
  • Venetian plaster, a type of polished plaster including marble dust
  • Venetian pearl, an imitation pearl made of solid glass
  • Venetian-style shoe, or Venetian loafer, a plain mid-heel slipper
  • Venetian soap, made with olive oil
  • Venetian sumac or smoke tree
  • Venetian swell, a swell organ with blinds patterned closing the swell box

Colors, pigments, and varnishes

  • Venetian blue, same as cobalt blue
  • Venetian ceruse, a lead-based white cosmetic face paint used in the 1600s and 1700s
  • Venetian green, a bluish dark green color
  • Venetian lake, a red painter's pigment or shade or carmine (color)
  • Venetian red, a painter's pigment
  • Venetian rose, a shade of pink
  • Venetian scarlet, a shade of red
  • Venetian turpentine or Venice turpentine, an artists' varnish from larch resin
  • Venetian white, a painter's pigment, mix of lead white and barium sulfate
  • Venetian yellow or amber yellow, a shade of yellow

Other

In titles and names

Buildings and structures

Books and plays

Movies

Paintings

People and spirits

Political parties and movements

Other