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Salome Asking Herod for the Head of Saint John the Baptist

Salome Asking Herod for the Head of Saint John the Baptist

Giovanni di Paolo · 1455–60

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Palette

Lichen
48% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.3:1

Dark ochre
15% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1

Dark olive
15% of the image
Green · text contrast 13.6:1

Olive brown
11% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.3:1

Prussian blue
8% of the image
Blue · text contrast 9.2:1

Cinnamon
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.2:1

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: Giovanni di Paolo
Date: 1455–60
Type: Painting
Medium: Tempera on panel
Size: 69.1 × 36 cm (27 3/16 × 14 3/16 in.); Framed: 80.1 × 47.7 × 8.3 cm (31 1/2 × 18 3/4 × 3 1/4 in.)
Place: Italy
Period: Renaissance · 15th century
Themes: Music and dance · Bible stories and saints
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 48, colourfulness 22

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 (2026-10-27); image released under CC0. Licence rules