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Mars and Venus United by Love by Paolo Veronese

Mars and Venus United by Love

Paolo Veronese · 1570s

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Palette

Lamp black
 39% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.7:1
Walnut
 38% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.0:1
Taupe
 10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.2:1
Spruce
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.6:1
Charcoal
 5% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.6:1
Fawn
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.2:1

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

Details

Artist
Paolo Veronese
Italian, Verona 1528–1588 Venice
Date
1570s
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
81 x 63 3/8 in. (205.7 x 161 cm)
Period
16th century
Themes
Horses · Myths and legends
Main colour
Brown · lightness 22, colourfulness 12

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1910. 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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