gillis
van breen
A Pupil of Goltzius: The Engravings of Gillis van Breen Gillis (also Egidius, Jelis) van Breen remains a somewhat enigmatic figure in the landscape of late 16th and early 17th-century Netherlandish printmaking. Born around 1560 in Haarlem, his life is largely reconstructed through the works …
A portrait built from gillis van breen'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.
