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Venus and Cupid

Luca Cambiaso · c. 1570

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 42% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.0:1
Walnut
 29% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.6:1
Taupe
 13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.2:1
Sepia
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.1:1
Mushroom
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.0:1
Putty
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.0:1

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

Details

Artist
Luca Cambiaso
Date
c. 1570
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
107.5 × 95.7 cm (42 3/8 × 37 5/8 in.); Framed: 138.5 × 126.7 × 8.6 cm (54 1/2 × 49 7/8 × 3 3/8 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
16th century
Themes
Interiors · Mothers and children · Myths and legends
Main colour
Brown · lightness 24, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, A. A. Munger Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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