Italian Renaissance · c. 1514
Sacred and Profane Love
Sacred and Profane Love (c. 1514) by Titian. Its palette is led by blue black (#15141c, 37%) and taupe (#5b503c, 22%), with accents of pigeon grey, amber brown and dark red. Overall the canvas is mid-toned, muted and warm.
Color note
Titian built his colors in many layers of glaze over a colored ground, the Venetian way of putting color before drawing. The copper-red hair of his sitters gave English the color name “Titian”.
Palette
- #15141c MG 221 blue black 36.8% of canvas
- #5b503c MG 176 taupe 21.6% of canvas
- #6a7990 MG 096 muted azure blue 11.8% of canvas
- #979da9 MG 208 pigeon grey 11.1% of canvas
- #d2bfbc MG 171 bone 9.1% of canvas
- #9e816d MG 165 amber brown 4.9% of canvas
- #801414 MG 020 dark red 4.8% of canvas
Color families
Black 34%, Brown 27%, Gray 21%, Blue 12%, Red 4%
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Composition
53% of the visual weight is in the right half, 57% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.22 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 12% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 32% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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