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The Meditation on the Passion by Vittore Carpaccio

The Meditation on the Passion

Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1490

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Palette

Coffee
 36% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.0:1
Raw umber
 20% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.7:1
Slate
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.1:1
Soot
 12% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.8:1
Graphite
 10% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.4:1
Stone
 8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1

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
Vittore Carpaccio
Italian, Venice 1460/66?–1525/26 Venice
Date
ca. 1490
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil and tempera on wood
Size
Overall 27 3/4 x 34 1/8in. (70.5 x 86.7cm); painted surface 26 3/16 × 33 1/4 in. (66.5 × 84.5 cm)
Period
15th century
Main colour
Brown · lightness 29, colourfulness 11

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1911. 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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