allegorical painting occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Temperature is balanced: the palette pits warm earth against cool sky without declaring a winner. Chroma hovers near zero; colour declares itself through subtle shifts in hue rather than outright saturation. The highest-chroma note - #C19853 - appears at just 2.3%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. A value spread of 56 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light.