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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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Tintoretto

Tintoretto combined Michelangelo's drawing with Titian's color, adding a dramatic chiaroscuro entirely his own. His palette is theatrical — deep blacks, luminous flesh, and flashes of ultramarine.

Palette: #221E1B #564430 #7E562E #928166 #BDA98A #442A1D #B1874E #5B3019

  • Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507-1577) Presented to the Redeemer (1577): #312420 #958069 #5C4C3B #1B1516 #4B656C #47261A
  • The Toilet of Venus (1570): #392C20 #CFA765 #8E5C2D #5D3A20 #B38041 #77421E
  • Buna Vestire: #6B3E09 #955F13 #512606 #593B1F #3B1B06 #080704
  • Marcantonio Barbaro: #110B09 #1A0505 #560E0E #7D1110 #66090B #3E090A
  • Mandsportræt (1533-94): #24211D #372B20 #7E5535 #59402B #BC8149
  • Portret van Een Man Met Een Rode Mantel (1555): #2E261D #4F3822 #6A522C #896634 #201D14 #AB8144
  • Christus en de Overspelige Vrouw (1550): #554B35 #BFB188 #84704B #2F2E27 #6D7562 #AC976B
  • Portret van Een Man (1550): #433828 #121210 #26211A #705631 #957246 #BA9A70
  • Portret van Ottavio Strada (1567): #0D0B06 #7A6C4B #332915 #D6CAB3 #1D160A #4C4630
  • De Verkondiging Aan Maria; de Engel (1560): #433628 #221A17 #5D4931 #7C6546 #402723 #A08B66
  • De Verkondiging Aan Maria; Maria (1560): #4C3E31 #352A25 #221B18 #8E7758 #695743 #0F0D09
  • Porträtt Av en Ung Man, Möjligen G. Pesaro: #26231E #483C2C #47261E #633122 #947652 #72553B
  • Bebådelsen: #463019 #7E5D2F #2D2718 #AB8A4B #624421
  • Tre Venetianska Rådsherrar: #302821 #6C5032 #201B19 #493A29 #4D2D21 #A38050
  • Maleri: #BEA88A #AA8555 #7E6549 #5C3924 #8B6824 #50463D
  • Susanna (ca. 1580): #1A161B #B19A7F #2F2324 #664C3D #5D2827 #442021
  • Tancred Baptizing Clorinda: #32270F #8B6E31 #583A0A #4F421E #1E130D #6F6032
  • Portrait of the Procurator Alessandro Gritti: #172023 #261C1C #0F1113 #3C1C1C #9D856F #504E42
  • Doge Pietro Loredano: #221B17 #5A2F17 #B8AA9A #8D7F71 #6D5D4F #451913
  • The Supper at Emmaus ((154): #130D0E #C1AE9A #916840 #5F4C38 #AD8C67 #442313
  • Presentation at the Temple (1540): #3C362F #241D19 #867D65 #3E2C1C #5C4325 #856537
  • Portrait eine Jungen (11 J): #050408 #43362C #1B1716 #9D7A63 #AD9B88 #7D5C47
  • Crowning with Thorns (1592): #232225 #181214 #3D2927 #623A33 #7D6151 #CC8E59

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