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A living archive of how artists work with color across time. Each artist profile scans publicly available works to trace dominant colors, a chromatic fingerprint, and the arc of a palette across a lifetime.A living archive of how artists work with color across time, tracing palettes, fingerprints, and lifetime arcs from public works.

Begin with an artist, carry a palette into the drawing system, or read the wider project.Begin with an artist, carry a palette into the drawing system, or read the wider project.

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Alessandro Magnasco

Alessandro Magnasco, also known as il Lissandrino, was an Italian late-Baroque painter active mostly in Milan and Genoa. He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric genre or landscape scenes.

Palette: #524929 #8B7E4F #2E281C #363018 #3E4132 #565C48 #979B7F #C1B578

  • The Baptism of Christ (ca. 1740): #213024 #535E49 #979B84 #35493C #7A7B5C #61868A
  • Karthuizer Monniken in Een Landschap (1700): #423E2F #2C2A21 #5B5B48 #877651
  • Drie Camaldolenser Monniken in Extatisch Gebed (1710): #4C4C2B #2B2F16 #837A51 #C4B574 #71785F
  • Drie Capucijner Monniken in Mediterend Gebed (1710): #635932 #352F14 #968C59 #4A4121 #999B75 #BDB783
  • De Kindermoord Te Bethlehem (1715): #31281A #877543 #5B4B2A #453620 #908B5C
  • De Opwekking van Lazarus (1715): #473C24 #2E271C #8C7C46 #715B2F

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