the common names people search
Colors
Browse by Color
Start with a common color family — the way most people search — then go deeper into the artist's named hues, the historic pigments, and how the palette of painting shifted across the centuries.
the artist's hue vocabulary
classified by palette across the catalog
Color of the day
Felucca off Gibraltar
Today's featured palette. A study in gold.
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Color families
Browse by color
The common color names — blue, green, red, black & white and more. Every family spans the whole catalog; tap one to see all its works, paginated.
Curated palettes
The named art hues
The artist's own vocabulary — crimson, ochre, cerulean, indigo, and the rest. Where families are the common names, these are the named hues, each drawn from a work's full five-swatch palette.
Go deeper into color
Depth layer Pigments & tone
The finer signal — named pigments (ochre, sienna, ultramarine), warm and cool cast,
and tonal value from luminous to deep.
Browse the palette → Time layer Color across the centuries
How the palette of painting shifts century by century — a color atlas drawn from the
dominant color of every work in the catalog.
Open the palette atlas → Cross layer Color in the movements
Where a hue meets a movement or a subject — gold in Baroque, blue in Impressionism,
crimson in portraiture. Every viable crossing, its own ranked page.
Browse color intersections →