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A work made of tempera and oil on panel, gold ground.

Virgin and Child

Central Italian · c. 1450

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Palette

Dark ochre
 39% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.7:1
Lamp black
 33% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.3:1
Bistre
 16% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.4:1
Cinnamon
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.0:1
Honey
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.1:1
Mahogany
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.6:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist
Central Italian
Date
c. 1450
Type
Painting
Medium
Tempera and oil on panel, gold ground
Size
81.6 × 49 cm (32 1/8 × 19 1/2 in.); Framed: 117.2 × 82 × 12.7 cm (46 1/8 × 32 1/4 × 5 in.)
Place
Central Italy
Period
15th century
Themes
Mothers and children · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 30, colourfulness 27

Art Institute of Chicago, George F. Harding Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-29); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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