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A work made of oil on canvas.

The Lamentation

Andrea Vaccaro · 1652

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Palette

Charcoal
 59% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.4:1
Iron
 16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.2:1
Lamp black
 9% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.4:1
Smoke
 9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.8:1
Ash
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.2:1
Pearl grey
 1% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.6:1

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
Andrea Vaccaro
Date
1652
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
128 × 156.9 cm (50 3/8 × 61 3/4 in.); Framed: 139.4 × 166.4 × 7.7 cm (54 7/8 × 65 1/2 × 3 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
17th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Black · lightness 27, colourfulness 0

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Dellora A. Norris. 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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