The Last Supper

Unknown artist · c. 1480/1500

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Palette

Parchment
42% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.9:1

Fawn
34% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.4:1

Apricot
10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.3:1

Sepia
8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.2:1

Coral
3% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.9:1

Pale gold
3% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 10.1:1

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: c. 1480/1500
Type: Print
Medium: woodcut, hand-colored in blue, lt. blue, lavender,vermilion, rose, tan, yellow, and green
Period: 15th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 70, 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 1500: 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 Last Supper

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