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A work made of oil on canvas.

The Adoration of the Magi

Pietro della Vecchia · c. 1650

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Palette

Lamp black
 39% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.9:1
Charcoal
 37% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.4:1
Iron
 13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.7:1
Pewter
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.8:1
Slate
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.8:1
Ash
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.2:1

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
Pietro della Vecchia
Date
c. 1650
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
47 × 147.3 cm (18 1/2 × 58 in.); Framed: 54.7 × 157.5 × 3.9 cm (21 1/2 × 62 × 1 1/2 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
17th century
Themes
Mothers and children · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Black · lightness 18, colourfulness 0

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Morris I. Kaplan. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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