allegorical painting sits in the centre of the value range, lending the palette a sense of even, sustained light. Temperature reads distinctly warm: the reds and earth tones carry the compositional weight. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. #3F2818 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (7.2%). 67 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls.