Northern Renaissance · 1500
The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things
The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things (1500) by Hieronymus Bosch. Its palette is led by charcoal (#1d1e18, 42%) and light sand (#b9986e, 17%), with accents of dark sienna, cool grey and dark muted azure blue. Overall the canvas is mid-toned, moderately saturated and warm.
Color reading
Brown and black cover nearly nine-tenths of the canvas. Its most vivid color, golden umber #877037, takes up 14% of it.
Palette
- #1d1e18 MG 222 charcoal 41.6% of canvas
- #b9986e MG 181 light sand 16.8% of canvas
- #544d2e MG 194 dark golden olive 16.6% of canvas
- #877037 MG 183 golden umber 13.6% of canvas
- #55221b MG 145 dark sienna 8.2% of canvas
- #657284 MG 209 cool grey 2.1% of canvas
- #344a62 MG 098 dark muted azure blue 1.1% of canvas
Color families
Brown 46%, Black 40%, Yellow 7%, Gray 4%, Orange 1%
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Composition
50% of the visual weight is in the right half, 51% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.81 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 18% 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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- The Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1490–1510
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