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Portrait of the Indian Monk Atisha by Tibet artist

Portrait of the Indian Monk Atisha

Tibet artist · early to mid-12th century

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Palette

Raw umber
 44% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.6:1
Brick
 28% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.6:1
Cinnamon
 15% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.5:1
Iron
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.9:1
Tan
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.5:1
Caramel
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1

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
Tibet artist
Date
early to mid-12th century
Type
Painting
Medium
Distemper and gold on cloth
Size
Image: H. 19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm); W. 15/16 in. (35.4 cm) Framed: H. 32 13/16 (83.3 cm); W. 21 11/16 in. (55.1 cm); D. 1 in. (2.5 cm)
Place
Tibet
Period
11th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Brown · lightness 42, colourfulness 29

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Steven Kossak, The Kronos Collections, 1993. 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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