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A work made of oil on canvas.

The Entombment

Guercino · 1656

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 87% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.5:1
Burnt sienna
 3% of the image
Red · text contrast 8.1:1
Putty
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.2:1
Cornflower
 2% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.3:1
Dark ochre
 2% of the image
Orange · text contrast 4.7:1
Slate
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.8:1

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
Guercino
Date
1656
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
146.7 × 221.2 cm (57 3/4 × 87 1/16 in.); Framed: 172.7 × 247 × 8.9 cm (68 × 97 1/4 × 3 1/2 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
17th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Black · lightness 17, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Wilson L. Mead 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

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