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Hercules chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses by Ugo da Carpi

Hercules chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses

Ugo da Carpi · ca. 1520–27

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Palette

Taupe
 42% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.1:1
Warm grey
 18% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.3:1
Mushroom
 16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.5:1
Slate
 12% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.0:1
Linen
 8% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.1:1
Pale stone
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.1:1

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
Ugo da Carpi
Italian, Carpi ca. 1480–1532 Bologna
Date
ca. 1520–27
Type
Print
Medium
Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in green
Size
11 15/16 × 9 1/4 in. (30.3 × 23.5 cm)
Period
16th century
Themes
Myths and legends
Main colour
Brown · lightness 56, colourfulness 8

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1920. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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