The Flagellation

Unknown artist · 1425/1450

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Palette

Parchment
48% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.8:1

Fawn
30% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.9:1

Pale gold
10% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 11.2:1

Terracotta
6% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.2:1

Sage
5% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.5:1

Tangerine
1% of the image
Orange · text contrast 7.0:1

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

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Artist: Unknown artist
Date: 1425/1450
Type: Print
Medium: woodcut, hand-colored in red lake, green, yellow, tan, and orange
Period: 15th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 75, colourfulness 29

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Rosenwald Collection. Museum record. Public domain. United States: National Gallery of Art marks it open access (published_images.openaccess = 1: public domain, CC0). Europe: Anonymous work, made by 1450: its maker died long before 1956, and any term counted from publication has also run out. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

The Flagellation

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