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Painting Palettes

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

Saint Jerome Antonio Vivarini, 1440s Portrait of a Man French Painter The Massacre of the Innocents Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio), ca. 1470 Wooded Landscape Gustave Courbet, 1860–65 Landscape with Two Poplars Vasily Kandinsky, 1912 Composition (No. 1) Gray-Red Piet Mondrian, 1935 The Young Bather Gustave Courbet, 1866 Retreat from the Storm Jean-François Millet, ca. 1846 Two Women Paul Gauguin, 1901 or 1902 A State Yacht and Other Craft in Calm Water Jan van de Cappelle, ca. 1660
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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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