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Venus and Adonis by Titian

Venus and Adonis

Titian · 1550s

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Palette

Bistre
 36% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.4:1
Dark chocolate
 33% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.6:1
Umber
 13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.3:1
Tan
 9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1
Lamp black
 7% of the image
Black · text contrast 20.7:1
Iron
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.0:1

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
Titian
Italian, Pieve di Cadore ca. 1485/90?–1576 Venice
Date
1550s
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
42 x 52 1/2 in. (106.7 x 133.4 cm)
Period
16th century
Themes
Dogs · Myths and legends
Main colour
Brown · lightness 20, colourfulness 13

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Jules Bache Collection, 1949. 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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