Baroque · 1634
Hercules Fighting the Nemean Lion
Hercules Fighting the Nemean Lion (1634) by Francisco de Zurbarán. Its palette is led by bistre (#241f19, 60%) and dark golden umber (#4c402a, 19%), with accents of pale gold. Overall the canvas is dark, muted and warm.
Color reading
Black and brown cover more than nine-tenths of the canvas. Its most vivid color, light amber #B19056, takes up 7% of it.
Palette
- #241f19 MG 219 bistre 59.8% of canvas
- #4c402a MG 185 dark golden umber 19.0% of canvas
- #63573d MG 184 umber 12.6% of canvas
- #b19056 MG 033 light amber 7.4% of canvas
- #d9c68d MG 036 pale gold 1.1% of canvas
Color families
Black 52%, Brown 42%, Yellow 6%, Gray 0%, White 0%
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Composition
52% of the visual weight is in the right half, 64% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.28 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 53% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 25% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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