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Piazza San Marco by Giovanni Antonio Canal

Piazza San Marco

Giovanni Antonio Canal · late 1720s

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Palette

Blue-grey
 32% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.6:1
Sepia
 24% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.3:1
Raw umber
 19% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.9:1
Pewter
 16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.8:1
Charcoal
 7% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.3:1
Smoke
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.2:1

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
Giovanni Antonio Canal
Italian, Venice 1697–1768 Venice
Date
late 1720s
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
27 x 44 1/4 in. (68.6 x 112.4 cm)
Period
18th century
Themes
Cities and streets
Main colour
Brown · lightness 43, colourfulness 11

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, 1988. 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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