Academicism occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Neither warm nor cool has the upper hand here; the equilibrium between the two generates the palette's visual energy. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. The most saturated colour, #D7CBB6, is reserved to 9.1% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. At 72 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings.