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Christ on the Living Cross

Follower of the Master of Saint Veronica · c. 1420

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Palette

Soot
 30% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.5:1
Pewter
 28% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1
Bronze
 24% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1
Umber
 11% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.7:1
Rust
 4% of the image
Red · text contrast 6.4:1
Fawn
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.4:1

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
Follower of the Master of Saint Veronica
Date
c. 1420
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on panel
Size
48.2 × 28.7 cm (19 1/8 × 11 3/8 in.); Framed: 48.6 × 28.8 × 1.3 cm (19 1/8 × 11 3/8 × 1/2 in.)
Place
Germany
Period
15th century
Themes
Night and moonlight · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 36, colourfulness 15

Art Institute of Chicago, Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester 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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