Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Francesco Colonna · December 1499

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Linen
52% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.6:1

Putty
30% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.6:1

Soot
11% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.1:1

Stone
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.5:1

Sepia
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.4:1

Taupe
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1

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: Francesco Colonna
Italian, ca. 1453–1517
Date: December 1499
Type: Decorative arts & sculpture
Medium: Printed book with woodcut illustrations
Size: 11 5/8 × 8 11/16 × 1 9/16 in. (29.5 × 22 × 4 cm)
Place: Italy
Period: 15th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 72, colourfulness 10

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1923. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

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