El Greco Master Palette

Palette Analysis

El Greco distributes its values across the middle register, creating harmony without high contrast. Heat pervades this palette; warm chromatic identities outweigh cool ones at almost every weight. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. #854B33 delivers the chromatic peak at only 4.0% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. A value spread of 67 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. These proportions encode El Greco's instinctive sense of how much of each quality the eye can hold.