allegorical painting occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. 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. At 9.0%, #6F5037 carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. 48 units of value spread create a palette that is varied but unified - contrast in the service of harmony.