The Vicious Town

Roerich Museum, Moscow, Russia · 71 x 91.5 cm

Lustrous Sienna
Lustrous Sheen without harshness - mid-to-high key, silky, with a pearl-like quality.
Sienna Warm red-brown earth - named after the Sienese pigment, a fundamental artist earth color.
The Vicious Town by Nicholas Roerich

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
46.7
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
59.9
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
61.5
cool
Dominant Hue
#B74D2E red

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 44°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 46.7
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 59.9
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 46.7 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"The Vicious Town" (1919) reads as a shadowed, vivid-saturation warm palette built around Red and Amber. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #F5B651 pulls the eye.

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