Tempest by Sounion

National Art Gallery (Alexandros Soutzos Museum), Athens, Greece · 59 x 83 cm

Tenebrous Basalt
Tenebrous Dark and murky - low-key values with obscured form, Baroque in temperament.
Basalt Dark blue-gray - the color of volcanic rock, cool and dense.
Tempest by Sounion by Ivan Aivazovsky

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
22.0
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
6.4
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-3.0
cool
Dominant Hue
#2F353B gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 261°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 22.0
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 6.4
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 22.0 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Tempest by Sounion" (1856) reads as a deep, muted-saturation cool palette built around Slate and Beige. Color weight is spread without a single dominant note. A low-prevalence accent at #DAC6A9 pulls the eye.

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