The Fall of Man with Scenes of the Creation

Augustus Cordus · 1544

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Bistre
34% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.3:1

Tan
24% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.5:1

Olive brown
16% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.3:1

Spruce
15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.9:1

Ash
7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.1:1

Bronze
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1

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

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Artist: Augustus Cordus
Date: 1544
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 48.6 × 58.4 cm (19 1/8 × 23 in.); Framed: 57.5 × 66.7 × 5.1 cm (22 5/8 × 26 1/4 × 2 in.)
Place: Germany
Period: 16th century
Themes: Landscapes · Mountains · Cats · Horses · Bible stories and saints
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 36, colourfulness 15

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mrs. Dellora A. Norris. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-11-02); image released under CC0. Licence rules

The Fall of Man with Scenes of the Creation

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