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Painting of the Virgin Mary ascending to heaven amongst multitude of angels.

The Assumption of the Virgin

Domenico Theotokópoulos, called El Greco · 1577–79

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Palette

Taupe
 45% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.9:1
Coffee
 36% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.8:1
Prussian blue
 6% of the image
Blue · text contrast 10.0:1
Khaki
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.1:1
Blue-grey
 4% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.6:1
Dark olive
 3% of the image
Green · text contrast 10.2:1

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
Domenico Theotokópoulos, called El Greco
Date
1577–79
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
403.2 × 211.8 cm (158 3/4 × 83 7/16 in.); Framed: 461.6 × 256.5 × 14 cm (181 3/4 × 101 × 5 9/16 in.)
Place
Greece
Period
Renaissance · Mannerism · 16th century
Themes
Night and moonlight · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Brown · lightness 36, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Nancy Atwood Sprague in memory of Albert Arnold Sprague. 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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