Baroque · 1593–1653 · Italian
Artemisia Gentileschi
Artemisia took up Caravaggio's dramatic light, setting strongly lit figures in rich reds, golds and blues against dark grounds.
Across 4 works, the colors are mostly brown (51%), black (36%) and gray (3%). On average the canvases are mid-toned, moderately saturated and warm. Signature colors, used far more here than across the collection: dark reddish brown, bistre, soot, warm black and very dark olive.
Color print
The swatches covering most of these canvases, averaged over every work, dark to light.
- MG 219 bistre 14.1% of canvas
- MG 223 soot 11.9% of canvas
- MG 156 dark reddish brown 9.6% of canvas
- MG 177 dark taupe 8.1% of canvas
- MG 222 charcoal 5.7% of canvas
- MG 220 warm black 5.4% of canvas
- MG 176 taupe 5.3% of canvas
- MG 224 black 3.2% of canvas
- MG 169 dark brown 2.8% of canvas
- MG 185 dark golden umber 2.3% of canvas
- MG 186 dark umber 2.1% of canvas
- MG 175 stone 2.0% of canvas
- MG 196 very dark olive 1.6% of canvas
- MG 221 blue black 1.6% of canvas
- MG 155 dark reddish brown 1.6% of canvas
- MG 180 pale sand 1.5% of canvas
Measurements
Composition
Averaged over 4 works: 54% of the visual weight in the left half, 52% in the upper half; symmetry 0.38; 36% calm space; half of the detail in 26% of the canvas. Measured from each image, not a rule the painters followed.