Council of High Priests

Unknown artist · c. 1490

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Palette

Sepia
33% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.0:1

Cinnamon
31% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.6:1

Fawn
14% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.0:1

Green earth
9% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.8:1

Steel blue
8% of the image
Blue · text contrast 6.4:1

Cream
4% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.2:1

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: Unknown artist
Date: c. 1490
Type: Print
Medium: hand-colored woodcut
Period: 15th century
Main colour: Brown · lightness 47, colourfulness 22

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 1490: 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

Council of High Priests

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