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Portrait of Shakyashribhadra with His Life Episodes and Lineage

Tibet artist · early to mid-14th century

Palette

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

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Artist

Tibet artist

Date

early to mid-14th century

Type

Painting

Medium

Distemper on cloth

Size

Image: H. 33 in. (83.8 cm); W. 25 5/16 in. (64.3 cm) Framed: H. 41 1/4 in. (104.8 cm); W. 33 3/8 in. (84.8 cm); D. 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm)

Place

Tibet

Period

13th century

Themes

Portraits

Main colour

Brown · lightness 40, colourfulness 26

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions Fund for Asian Art, 2021. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules