Northern Renaissance · 1533
The Ambassadors
The Ambassadors (1533) by Hans Holbein the Younger. Its palette is led by soot (#0f0e0d, 37%) and bistre (#32241c, 17%), with accents of golden umber, dark amber brown and olive. Overall the canvas is dark, muted and warm.
Color reading
Black and brown cover about four-fifths of the canvas. Its most vivid color, olive #445415, takes up 6% of it.
Palette
- #0f0e0d MG 223 soot 37.5% of canvas
- #32241c MG 219 bistre 16.8% of canvas
- #27310d MG 060 dark muted green 13.5% of canvas
- #b6ad9c MG 172 oatmeal 10.6% of canvas
- #7a684f MG 183 golden umber 8.5% of canvas
- #593c28 MG 168 dark amber brown 7.3% of canvas
- #445415 MG 046 olive 5.9% of canvas
Color families
Black 45%, Brown 35%, Green 17%, Gray 1%, Red 1%
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Composition
52% of the visual weight is in the left half, 55% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.36 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 22% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 26% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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