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Paint colors for your home, inside and out

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Painting Palettes

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

Charity Carlo Cignani, ca. 1680 The Annunciation Budapest Master Guillaume Budé (1467–1540) Jean Clouet, ca. 1536 Vanitas Still Life Edwaert Collier, 1662 Portrait of a Man Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1693 Portrait of a Man Pieter van Slingelandt, ca. 1680 Portrait of a Woman, Said to Be Caritas Pirckheimer (1467–1532) Albrecht Dürer Sandy Road with a Farmhouse Jan van Goyen, 1627 Christ on the Cross Cecco del Caravaggio (Francesco Buoneri), ca. 1615–20 La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930) Vincent van Gogh, 1889
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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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