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Madonna and Child by Giovanni Bellini

Madonna and Child

Giovanni Bellini · late 1480s

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Palette

Lamp black
 29% of the image
Black · text contrast 19.4:1
Rust
 21% of the image
Red · text contrast 7.5:1
Cinnamon
 20% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.1:1
Tan
 15% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.7:1
Ash
 9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.9:1
Slate
 7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.7:1

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
Giovanni Bellini
Italian, Venice, 1424/26–1516 Venice
Date
late 1480s
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on wood
Size
35 x 28 in. (88.9 x 71.1 cm)
Period
15th century
Themes
Mothers and children · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Red · lightness 32, colourfulness 27

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1908. 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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