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The Baptism of Christ by Jacopo Bassano

The Baptism of Christ

Jacopo Bassano · ca. 1590

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Palette

Lamp black
 84% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.5:1
Coffee
 7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.0:1
Sepia
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.0:1
Taupe
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.7:1
Mahogany
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 15.1:1
Oxblood
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.8:1

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
Jacopo Bassano
Italian, Bassano del Grappa ca. 1510–1592 Bassano del Grappa
Date
ca. 1590
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
75 1/2 x 63 1/8 in. (191.8 x 160.3 cm)
Period
16th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Black · lightness 10, colourfulness 5

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mark Fisch and Rachel Davidson, 2012. 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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