A light-skinned nude woman, center, struggles while a light-skinned nude man, top left, violently pulls white translucent fabric off of her. Dark red and brown textiles, a pillow, dagger, and fallen nude statue complete the scene.

Tarquin and Lucretia

Tintoretto · 1578–80

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Dark chocolate
44% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.1:1

Walnut
32% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.4:1

Biscuit
7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.7:1

Sand
7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.7:1

Caramel
6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1

Taupe
3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.7:1

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: Tintoretto
Date: 1578–80
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 175 × 151.5 cm (68 7/8 × 59 5/8 in.); Framed: 203.9 × 181 × 8.3 cm (80 1/4 × 71 1/4 × 3 1/4 in.)
Place: Italy
Period: 16th century
Themes: Interiors
Main colour: Brown · lightness 28, colourfulness 15

Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute Purchase Fund. 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

Tarquin and Lucretia

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