allegorical painting occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Heat pervades this palette; warm chromatic identities outweigh cool ones at almost every weight. Saturation is deliberately withheld - the beauty here lies in the near-monochromatic gradations rather than colour difference. #63422B functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (12.3%). 55 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls.