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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.

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 María Luisa of Parma (1751–1819), Queen of Spain Goya The Musicians Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi), 1597
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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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