Mannerism · 1503–1572 · Italian
Agnolo Bronzino
Across 3 works, the colors are mostly brown (42%), black (29%) and blue (12%). On average the canvases are mid-toned, moderately saturated and warm. Signature colors, used far more here than across the collection: very dark blue, dark blue, very dark muted blue, soot and pale muted cream.
Color print
The swatches covering most of these canvases, averaged over every work, dark to light.
- MG 223 soot 13.3% of canvas
- MG 222 charcoal 8.7% of canvas
- MG 177 dark taupe 5.3% of canvas
- MG 221 blue black 4.6% of canvas
- MG 218 graphite 3.9% of canvas
- MG 176 taupe 3.8% of canvas
- MG 219 bistre 3.8% of canvas
- MG 100 very dark muted blue 3.6% of canvas
- MG 163 pale tan 3.1% of canvas
- MG 164 light tan 3.0% of canvas
- MG 107 dark blue 2.5% of canvas
- MG 220 warm black 2.4% of canvas
- MG 108 very dark blue 2.4% of canvas
- MG 165 amber brown 2.3% of canvas
- MG 199 pale muted cream 2.2% of canvas
- MG 175 stone 2.1% of canvas
Measurements
Composition
Averaged over 3 works: 54% of the visual weight in the right half, 55% in the upper half; symmetry 0.33; 29% calm space; half of the detail in 29% of the canvas. Measured from each image, not a rule the painters followed.