Northern Renaissance · 1526
Darmstadt Madonna
Darmstadt Madonna (1526) by Hans Holbein the Younger. Its palette is led by charcoal (#2e2734, 24%) and soot (#0f0d16, 14%), with accents of rich sienna, scarlet, pale tan and grey. Overall the canvas is mid-toned, moderately saturated and warm.
Color reading
Brown, white and black cover about two-thirds of the canvas. Its most vivid color, scarlet #B37754, takes up 11% of it.
Palette
- #2e2734 MG 222 charcoal 23.7% of canvas
- #734236 MG 147 rich sienna 17.9% of canvas
- #0f0d16 MG 223 soot 14.2% of canvas
- #f7f6fe MG 205 white 14.0% of canvas
- #b37754 MG 024 scarlet 10.5% of canvas
- #e8d9e5 MG 206 silver 8.3% of canvas
- #e0b594 MG 163 pale tan 7.6% of canvas
- #7d828f MG 215 grey 3.8% of canvas
Color families
Brown 27%, White 20%, Black 20%, Blue 9%, Gray 9%
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Composition
57% of the visual weight is in the right half, 58% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.58 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 11% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 31% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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