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A work made of oil on copper.

The Vision of Saint Francis

Ludovico Carracci · c. 1602

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Palette

Soot
 50% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.8:1
Dark olive
 25% of the image
Green · text contrast 9.3:1
Taupe
 20% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1
Prussian blue
 3% of the image
Blue · text contrast 10.4:1
Mahogany
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.0:1
Rose
 1% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.6:1

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
Ludovico Carracci
Date
c. 1602
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on copper
Size
37.2 × 28.6 cm (14 5/8 × 11 1/4 in.); Framed: 50.8 × 40.7 × 3.2 cm (20 × 16 × 1 1/4 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
16th century
Themes
Night and moonlight · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Black · lightness 26, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Lacy Armour Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-11-01); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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