cristoforo
castelli
The Painter of Two Worlds: The Extraordinary Journey of Cristoforo Castelli In the grand tapestry of the seventeenth century, few lives weave together the disparate threads of European high culture and Caucasian frontier life as intimately as that of Cristoforo Castelli. Born in 1597 into …
A portrait built from cristoforo castelli's own colours
Every 1 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.