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A work made of tempera on panel.

Saints Augustine and Peter

Paolo Veneziano · c. 1350

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Palette

Umber
 31% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.2:1
Lamp black
 24% of the image
Black · text contrast 20.8:1
Tan
 18% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1
Cinnamon
 14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.5:1
Bistre
 9% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.9:1
Sand
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.7:1

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

Details

Artist
Paolo Veneziano
Date
c. 1350
Type
Painting
Medium
Tempera on panel
Size
77.4 × 49.5 cm (30 1/2 × 19 1/2 in.); Framed: 101 × 59.7 cm (39 3/4 × 23 1/2 in.)
Place
Venice
Period
Medieval · 14th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Brown · lightness 29, colourfulness 20

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mrs. Charles V. Hickox. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-27); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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