Northern Renaissance · 1450–1516 · Netherlandish

Hieronymus Bosch

Across 4 works, the colors are mostly brown (56%), black (22%) and yellow (8%). On average the canvases are mid-toned, moderately saturated and warm. Signature colors, used far more here than across the collection: yellow, olive, light yellow, warm black and dark golden olive.

Color print

The swatches covering most of these canvases, averaged over every work, dark to light.

• MG 219 bistre 8.3% of canvas
• MG 222 charcoal 6.7% of canvas
• MG 220 warm black 5.9% of canvas
• MG 223 soot 4.9% of canvas
• MG 221 blue black 4.2% of canvas
• MG 194 dark golden olive 3.9% of canvas
• MG 171 bone 3.6% of canvas
• MG 177 dark taupe 3.4% of canvas
• MG 191 golden olive 3.0% of canvas
• MG 195 dark olive 2.9% of canvas
• MG 172 oatmeal 2.6% of canvas
• MG 193 golden olive 2.6% of canvas
• MG 192 golden olive 2.4% of canvas
• MG 190 light golden sand 2.3% of canvas
• MG 168 dark amber brown 2.3% of canvas
• MG 156 dark reddish brown 2.3% of canvas

Measurements

Lightness

0.46

Contrast

0.60

Vividness

0.044

Warmth

+0.90

Complexity

226 cells

Hue range

0.46

Focus

0.06

Composition

Averaged over 4 works: 50% of the visual weight in the right half, 52% in the lower half; symmetry 0.65; 11% calm space; half of the detail in 34% of the canvas. Measured from each image, not a rule the painters followed.

Works

• The Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1490–1510
• The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things, 1500
• Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1501
• Ship of Fools, 1500–1509