Mannerism · 1545
Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time
Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time (1545) by Agnolo Bronzino. Its palette is led by pale muted cream (#ead2b4, 23%) and dark amber brown (#503c24, 15%), with accents of amber brown, stone, dark muted azure blue and dark grey. Overall the canvas is mid-toned, moderately saturated and warm.
Color reading
Brown and black cover about two-thirds of the canvas. Even its most colorful tone, dark muted azure blue #3E4366, stays close to gray.
Palette
- #ead2b4 MG 199 pale muted cream 22.9% of canvas
- #a18466 MG 165 amber brown 19.5% of canvas
- #503c24 MG 168 dark amber brown 15.4% of canvas
- #201b0d MG 187 very dark umber 14.5% of canvas
- #786146 MG 175 stone 14.1% of canvas
- #1d213c MG 100 very dark muted blue 7.3% of canvas
- #3e4366 MG 098 dark muted azure blue 4.2% of canvas
- #6a6476 MG 216 dark grey 2.0% of canvas
Color families
Brown 56%, Black 12%, White 12%, Blue 10%, Gray 5%
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Composition
57% of the visual weight is in the right half, 54% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.31 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 3% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 36% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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