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A work made of tempera and oil (?) on panel, transferred to canvas.

Virgin and Child Enthroned

Girolamo da Santacroce · 1516

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Palette

Lamp black
 39% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.8:1
Bistre
 31% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.4:1
Iron
 11% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.0:1
Sepia
 11% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.9:1
Green earth
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1
Putty
 2% of the image
Green · text contrast 8.0:1

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
Girolamo da Santacroce
Date
1516
Type
Painting
Medium
Tempera and oil (?) on panel, transferred to canvas
Size
86.9 × 44.7 cm (34 1/4 × 17 5/8 in.); Framed : 115.6 × 74.3 × 7.7 cm (45 1/2 × 29 1/4 × 3 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
16th century
Themes
Birds · Mothers and children · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Black · lightness 21, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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