Mannerism · c. 1544
Portrait of Eleanor of Toledo and her son Giovanni de' Medici
Portrait of Eleanor of Toledo and her son Giovanni de' Medici (c. 1544) by Agnolo Bronzino. Its palette is led by soot (#0f0d11, 36%) and dark blue (#344272, 10%), with accents of taupe, dark sienna, golden umber and pale sand. Overall the canvas is dark, moderately saturated and balanced between warm and cool.
Color reading
Black and brown cover nearly three-quarters of the canvas. Its most vivid color, dark blue #344272, takes up 10% of it.
Palette
- #0f0d11 MG 223 soot 35.9% of canvas
- #604b36 MG 176 taupe 12.5% of canvas
- #382927 MG 145 dark sienna 11.7% of canvas
- #344272 MG 107 dark blue 10.1% of canvas
- #171c37 MG 100 very dark muted blue 10.1% of canvas
- #222c5a MG 099 dark muted blue 9.1% of canvas
- #968566 MG 182 golden umber 6.3% of canvas
- #cdb693 MG 180 pale sand 4.5% of canvas
Color families
Black 43%, Brown 28%, Blue 25%, Gray 2%, Yellow 1%
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Composition
64% of the visual weight is in the left half, 60% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.31 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 37% 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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