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The Last Communion of Saint Jerome by Sandro Botticelli

The Last Communion of Saint Jerome

Sandro Botticelli · early 1490s

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Palette

Bistre
 53% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.3:1
Raw umber
 24% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.1:1
Lamp black
 10% of the image
Black · text contrast 20.6:1
Putty
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.4:1
Blue-grey
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1
Cinnamon
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.6:1

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

Details

Artist
Sandro Botticelli
Italian, Florence 1444/45–1510 Florence
Date
early 1490s
Type
Painting
Medium
Tempera and gold on wood
Size
13 1/2 x 10 in. (34.3 x 25.4 cm)
Period
15th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Brown · lightness 30, colourfulness 14

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913. 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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