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Jove Casts His Thunderbolts at the Rebellious Giants

Johann Michael Rottmayr · c. 1695

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Palette

Lamp black
 60% of the image
Black · text contrast 19.5:1
Umber
 31% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.1:1
Denim
 5% of the image
Blue · text contrast 6.3:1
Dark ochre
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.7:1
Slate
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.3:1
Putty
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.4:1

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

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Artist
Johann Michael Rottmayr
Date
c. 1695
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
81.3 × 125.2 cm (32 × 49 1/2 in.); Framed: 92.1 × 135.6 × 9.3 cm (36 1/4 × 53 3/8 × 3 5/8 in.)
Place
Austria
Period
17th century
Themes
Birds · Myths and legends
Main colour
Black · lightness 16, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Jacob S. Sherman. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-11-02); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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