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Vividly colored painting of Virgin Mary with baby Jesus and baby John the Baptist.

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist

Antonio da Correggio · c. 1515

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Palette

Soot
 43% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.5:1
Raw umber
 23% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.2:1
Pale blue-grey
 20% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.5:1
Deep teal
 7% of the image
Teal · text contrast 6.9:1
Rust
 4% of the image
Red · text contrast 6.3:1
Garnet
 3% of the image
Red · text contrast 13.1:1

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
Antonio da Correggio
Date
c. 1515
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on panel
Size
64.2 × 50.2 cm (25 1/4 × 19 3/4 in.); Framed: 79.4 × 63.9 × 8.3 cm (31 1/4 × 25 1/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
16th century
Themes
Mothers and children · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Black · lightness 33, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Clyde M. Carr Fund. 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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