palma
il vecchio
A Venetian Master of Sensuality: The Life and Art of Palma Vecchio Jacopo Negretti, known to history as Palma Vecchio – “Palma the Elder” – emerged from the artistic landscape of early 16th-century Venice as a pivotal figure bridging the High Renaissance and the burgeoning …
A portrait built from palma il vecchio's own colours
Every 10 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.
