Saint Barbara
Unknown artist · 1460/1470
Palette
Parchment
Fawn
Salmon
Green earth
Blue-grey
Iron
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
- Unknown artist
- Date
- 1460/1470
- Type
- Medium
- woodcut in brown, hand-colored in red lake, yellow, green, blue, ochre, and gold
- Period
- 15th century
- Themes
- Bible stories and saints
- Main colour
- Gold & ochre · lightness 69, colourfulness 25
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 1470: 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
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