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Saint Helen Testing the True Cross

Tintoretto · c. 1545

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Palette

Sepia
 59% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.5:1
Taupe
 18% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1
Fawn
 9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.5:1
Putty
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.0:1
Caramel
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1
Raw umber
 3% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.1:1

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
Tintoretto
Date
c. 1545
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
21.5 × 48.9 cm (8 1/2 × 19 3/8 in.); Framed: 31.8 × 59.4 × 6.4 cm (12 1/2 × 23 3/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
16th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Brown · lightness 42, colourfulness 17

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Böhler and Steinmeyer. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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