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The Crucifixion

Francisco de Zurbarán · 1627

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Palette

Lamp black
 81% of the image
Black · text contrast 19.8:1
Dark chocolate
 8% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.5:1
Sepia
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.1:1
Raw umber
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.8:1
Bistre
 3% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.5:1
Taupe
 2% 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

Details

Artist
Francisco de Zurbarán
Date
1627
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
290.3 × 165.5 cm (114 5/16 × 65 3/16 in.); Framed: 339.1 × 212.1 × 14 cm (133 3/8 × 83 1/2 × 5 1/2 in.)
Place
Spain
Period
Renaissance · 17th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Black · lightness 7, colourfulness 4

Art Institute of Chicago, Robert A. Waller Memorial Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-30); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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