The Last King. Empty throne.

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Brooding Basalt
Brooding Low-key and emotionally weighted - dark values with a sense of psychological depth.
Basalt Dark blue-gray - the color of volcanic rock, cool and dense.
The Last King. Empty throne. by Nicholas Roerich

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
34.7
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
11.3
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-5.7
cool
Dominant Hue
#46535C blue

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 251°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 34.7
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 11.3
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 34.7 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"The Last King. Empty throne." (1922) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation cool palette built around Slate and Cool Grey. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #93895D pulls the eye.

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