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A work made of etching on heavy ivory laid paper.

The Skeletons

Giovanni Battista Piranesi · 1750

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Palette

Bone white
 61% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.1:1
Pale stone
 13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.5:1
Mushroom
 11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.2:1
Taupe
 8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1
Sepia
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.8:1
Graphite
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.5:1

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
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Italian, 1720-1778
Date
1750
Type
Print
Medium
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper
Size
Image: 38.9 × 54.2 cm (15 3/8 × 21 3/8 in.); Plate: 39.3 × 54.7 cm (15 1/2 × 21 9/16 in.); Sheet: 59 × 80.7 cm (23 1/4 × 31 13/16 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
18th century
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 80, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago. 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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