Northern Renaissance · 1471–1528 · German
Albrecht Dürer
Across 3 works, the colors are mostly brown (42%), black (32%) and red (5%). On average the canvases are dark, moderately saturated and warm. Signature colors, used far more here than across the collection: very dark rich sienna, very dark brown, dark rich brown, soot and scarlet red.
Color print
The swatches covering most of these canvases, averaged over every work, dark to light.
- MG 223 soot 16.7% of canvas
- MG 220 warm black 5.8% of canvas
- MG 219 bistre 4.8% of canvas
- MG 170 very dark brown 4.5% of canvas
- MG 221 blue black 4.3% of canvas
- MG 224 black 4.2% of canvas
- MG 019 scarlet red 3.8% of canvas
- MG 156 dark reddish brown 3.7% of canvas
- MG 160 dark rich brown 3.6% of canvas
- MG 222 charcoal 3.3% of canvas
- MG 149 very dark rich sienna 3.3% of canvas
- MG 157 very dark reddish brown 3.1% of canvas
- MG 146 very dark sienna 3.1% of canvas
- MG 169 dark brown 2.9% of canvas
- MG 148 dark rich sienna 2.5% of canvas
- MG 030 orange 2.4% of canvas
Measurements
Composition
Averaged over 3 works: 56% of the visual weight in the left half, 54% in the lower half; symmetry 0.26; 29% calm space; half of the detail in 30% of the canvas. Measured from each image, not a rule the painters followed.