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A work made of tempera and gold on panel.

Retable and Frontal of the Life of Christ and the Virgin

Spanish · 1396

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Palette

Taupe
 44% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.5:1
Chalk
 27% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 18.7:1
Putty
 22% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.3:1
Slate
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.9:1
Terracotta
 1% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.9:1
Sand
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.3:1

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
Spanish
Date
1396
Type
Painting
Medium
Tempera and gold on panel
Size
Retable: 257 × 669.9 cm (99 3/4 × 263 3/4 in.); Frontal: 116.3 × 290.9 cm (45 3/4 × 114 1/2 in.)
Place
Spain
Period
14th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Brown · lightness 69, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Charles Deering. 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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