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A light-skinned man in red and woman in blue sit with an infant between them, angels beside and above them, a small town in the background.

The Nativity

Fra Bartolomeo · 1504–7

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Palette

Silver
 43% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.4:1
Sepia
 34% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.3:1
Navy
 8% of the image
Blue · text contrast 13.2:1
Blue-grey
 6% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.1:1
Brick
 5% of the image
Red · text contrast 9.6:1
Terracotta
 4% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.1:1

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
Fra Bartolomeo
Date
1504–7
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on panel
Size
Framed: 52.4 × 35.6 × 7.7 cm (20 5/8 × 14 × 3 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
Renaissance · 16th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Brown · lightness 52, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Ethel T. Scarborough Fund; John G. Searle Family Trust, L. L. and A. S. Coburn, Mr. and Mrs. Lester King, John and Josephine Louis, Samuel A. Marx, Alexander McKay, Chester D. Tripp, and Murray Vale endowment funds; purchased with funds provided by Marilynn Alsdorf, Anne Searle Bent, David and Celia Hilliard, Alexandra and John Nichols, Mrs. Harold T. Martin, Mrs. George B. Young in memory of her husband, and the Rhoades Foundation; gift of John Bross and members of the Old Masters Society in memory of Louise Smith Bross; through prior gift of the George F. Harding, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kimball, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson, and Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester collections. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-30); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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