A light-skinned, blond Virgin Mary in blue holds a child, his arms reaching around her neck and face upturned toward hers. At left, an angel looks on.

Virgin and Child with an Angel

Sandro Botticelli · 1475–85

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Raw umber
41% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.3:1

Deep teal
32% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.0:1

Pale stone
9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.9:1

Pewter
9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.9:1

Fawn
8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.8:1

Garnet
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.9:1

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: Sandro Botticelli
Date: 1475–85
Type: Painting
Medium: Tempera on panel
Size: 85.8 × 59.1 cm (33 3/4 × 23 1/4 in.); Framed: 106.7 × 80.1 × 7.7 cm (42 × 31 1/2 × 3 in.)
Place: Italy
Period: Renaissance · 15th century
Themes: Interiors · Mothers and children · Bible stories and saints
Main colour: Brown · lightness 42, colourfulness 15

Art Institute of Chicago, Max and Leola Epstein Collection. 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

Virgin and Child with an Angel

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