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A work made of tempera on panel.

Pietà

After Cosimo Tura · 1475/1500

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Palette

Walnut
 34% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.1:1
Sand
 23% of the image
Green · text contrast 9.4:1
Taupe
 18% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1
Bronze
 11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.1:1
Umber
 9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.4:1
Straw
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.5:1

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
After Cosimo Tura
Date
1475/1500
Type
Painting
Medium
Tempera on panel
Size
71.7 × 55.2 cm (28 1/4 × 21 3/4 in.); Framed: 90.9 × 79.4 × 7.7 cm (35 3/4 × 31 1/4 × 3 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
Renaissance · 15th century
Themes
Mountains · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Brown · lightness 45, 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 (2026-10-28); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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