Saffron, marigold, papaya, citrine, bittersweet, tangerine, tangelo, apricot, coral, peach, tearose, persimmon, cinnabar …
Aside from Leighton’s ‘Flaming June’ my favourite oranges are those of the Italian Mannerists (which I think I’ve written about before), especially Rosso Fiorentino and Pontormo. Rosso was himself a fiery redhead, and there’s always something glowing orange in his most majestic essays on grief – often Christ’s Deposition glowing with something like the light of nuclear aftermath, citrine and bittersweet. Such ‘orange grief’ is strangely and palpably alive, a passage through amber –
Near Depth Experience 