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Venus and Cupid by Lorenzo Lotto

Venus and Cupid

Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

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Palette

Mushroom
 27% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.0:1
Soot
 25% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.2:1
Sepia
 14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.4:1
Mahogany
 14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.7:1
Slate blue
 10% of the image
Blue · text contrast 8.1:1
Chestnut
 10% 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
Lorenzo Lotto
Italian, Venice ca. 1480–1556 Loreto
Date
1520s
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
36 3/8 x 43 7/8 in. (92.4 x 111.4 cm)
Period
16th century
Themes
Myths and legends
Main colour
Brown · lightness 32, colourfulness 16

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, in honor of Marietta Tree, 1986. 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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