Paternoster

State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow, Russia

Brooding Sienna
Brooding Low-key and emotionally weighted - dark values with a sense of psychological depth.
Sienna Warm red-brown earth - named after the Sienese pigment, a fundamental artist earth color.
Paternoster by Nicholas Roerich

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
12.2
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
38.3
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
3.0
cool
Dominant Hue
#111A4D blue

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 301°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 12.2
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 38.3
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 12.2 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Paternoster" (1940) reads as a shadowed, vivid-saturation balanced palette built around Blue and Amber. One color carries 61% of the picture plane, anchoring the composition. A low-prevalence accent at #09268D pulls the eye.

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