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Vibrantly colored mythical scene depicting people, animals, and dragons in front of mountains.

Milarepa on Mount Kailash

Unknown artist · c. 1500

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Palette

Sepia
 33% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.4:1
Bronze
 27% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.7:1
Chestnut
 19% of the image
Red · text contrast 8.2:1
Ink
 8% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.5:1
Tan
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.6:1
Umber
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.7:1

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
Unknown artist
Date
c. 1500
Type
Painting
Medium
Pigment and gold on cotton
Size
45.5 × 30 cm (17 7/8 × 11 13/16 in.)
Place
Tibet
Period
14th century
Themes
Mountains · Horses · Music and dance
Main colour
Brown · lightness 35, colourfulness 22

Art Institute of Chicago, Asian Purchase Campaign Endowment and Robert Ross Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-27); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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