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Paint colors for your home, inside and out

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    • Agreeable Gray
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Painting Palettes

Room palettes measured from public-domain paintings: real colors, light reflectance, paint ideas and room schemes.

Portrait of a Man in Armor with Two Pages Paris Bordon The Three Ages of Humans Dosso Dossi (Giovanni de Lutero), ca. 1515 Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904) Carolus-Duran (Charles-Auguste-Emile Durant), 1861 Sleep Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, ca. 1867–70 The Coronation of the Virgin Annibale Carracci, after 1595 Sunrise Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée), possibly 1646–47 The North Cape by Moonlight Peder Balke, 1848 The Finding of Moses Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti), 1560s? The Crucifixion Ugolino da Siena, ca. 1315–20 John Julius Angerstein (1736–1823) Sir Thomas Lawrence
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Light & Pigment

Paint color guides for real rooms and real light. Colors on screen differ from paint on a wall, so always test a sample.

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