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Theodosius Repulsed from the Church by Saint Ambrose

Alessandro Magnasco · c. 1705

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Palette

Bistre
 67% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.2:1
Raw umber
 15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.7:1
Umber
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.1:1
Tan
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1
Mushroom
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.1:1
Smoke
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.4:1

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

Details

Artist
Alessandro Magnasco
Date
c. 1705
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
155.3 × 213.5 cm (61 1/8 × 84 1/16 in.); Framed: 189.9 × 248.3 cm (74 3/4 × 97 3/4 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
17th century
Themes
Mothers and children · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Black · lightness 27, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Clyde M. Carr Fund. 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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