The Palette Atlas

How the palette of painting shifts across the centuries, drawn directly from the dominant colour of every work in the catalog. Pick a century to see its colour ramp and the works behind it.

← Back to Colors · The time layer of the color cluster. Browse color families → or the finer pigments & tone →.

• Undated 2,592 works
• 1100s 393 works
• 1200s 506 works
• 1300s 995 works
• 1400s 4,828 works
• 1500s 15,695 works
• 1600s 29,999 works
• 1700s 22,995 works
• 1800s 63,957 works
• 1900s 35,080 works
• 2000s 2,861 works